Kamala Harris, and those pearls that symbolize female solidarity

She wore them when she graduated from Howard University, for her oath at congress, when she questioned Brett Kavanaugh, and, more recently, on the day she, in front of the world, got her first dose of the Covid vaccine injected. -19.

The pearls, per Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States of America, I’m not just a fashion quirk. They are a distinctive trait of his style, his taste, his being, since he was a member, during his university studies, of Alpha Kappa Alpha, one of the oldest black brotherhoods in the country.

AKA, in fact, has a legendary history, whose founding members are called “Twenty Pearls” and each new member, upon joining, receives a special badge decorated precisely with 20 pearls. “Pearls represent refinement and wisdom,” he said Glenda Glover, international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha and president of Tennessee State University a VanityFair.com. “We train young women to be leaders and to make sure they have the wisdom to lead others …” she continued.
A symbolic accessory, therefore, which for Harris represents solidarity with his sisters. A little as a symbol, pearls have been for the style icons of the past. From Coco Chanel, who had been portrayed with outfits from the look mannish and endless strings of pearls around the neck, forever clearing their innate refinement, a Jackie Kennedy, rarely without her white choker, or even Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and, for the present times, the Queen Elizabeth II. Between diamond brooches and imposing tiaras, in its precious paraphernalia, the round of pearls never fails.

Small yet powerful, not expensive, yet decisive. Just a pair in the ear or a thread around the neck to determine the look. But today, on the day of Harris’ inauguration, that accessory so full of history, interpretations and values, becomes a symbol of sisterhood, commonality, belonging.
This is the group’s goal Wears Pearls on Jan 20th, born on Facebook in early December from an idea by Hope Aloaye, 46, who al New York Times she said: “I woke up and thought: we need to team up as women not only to celebrate Kamala Harris, but also ourselves.” And so is the group, which today counts approx 450,000 subscribers, it gradually transformed into a varied community of women of different ages, races, backgrounds, united by those values ​​of female empowerment and solidarity embodied by Kamala herself, in which the desire to write a new chapter in American history is placed. Symbol of this union, precisely, the pearls, as a reminder of the accessory that is part, like sneakers, of his personality and that in this context becomes a powerful sign of affiliation.
“If I am alive for the Inauguration Day and if I am well I will follow everything minute by minute”, Dorothy Allison, 100, told New York Times. «For the occasion I will dress elegantly and wear my pearls” has continued. And like her, also the other women of the community, who, at that moment, will symbolically unite to honor Harris by showing off their precious stones.