Sen. Kamala Harris retains two historical names as the first Asian American and the first Black woman to sit on a significant party's presidential ticket. That instant milestone in particular is no crash, according to Wendy Smooth, a professor of political science and women's studies at Ohio State University. "Kamala Harris climbs from a strategic campaign led by Black girls to call upon the Democratic Party to recognize their long-standing activism and support," she explained. "It is not happenstance that all of a sudden we're talking about Black girls in 2020. And it wasn't that we began talking about Black women only in 2008, which is just another narrative that I find incredibly frustrating. Black women are at the helm of Democratic organizing and Democratic politics for decades," Smooth said. Harris herself confessed this Wednesday night in her speech to the Democratic National Convention. Speaking about the 19th Amendment -- that gave a few wom