On Thursday evening on the 2024 Democratic Nationwide Conference, a sea of white washed over the United Heart—a tribute to the suffragette white that has lengthy been deployed by feminine politicians. However many DNC attendees selected to indicate their assist for Vice President Kamala Harris with a distinct shade palette: salmon pink and apple inexperienced.
Whereas they could not represent the everyday patriotic combo of pink, white, and blue, pink and inexperienced are near the Vice President’s coronary heart: They’re the colours of her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha. Established in 1908 at Howard College—Harris’s alma mater—AKA is the oldest traditionally Black sorority within the nation, and is likely one of the Divine 9 traditionally Black Greek-letter organizations.
Along with the telltale hues, AKAs additionally nodded to Harris with a strings of pearls. Upon induction, every member is given an ivy leaf (the sorority’s image) pin rimmed with pearls. Many sisters select to put on a strand of pearls to honor the Twenty Pearls, representing AKA’s founders and incorporators. Harris has frequently worn pearls all through her time period, and even sported a necklace from Irene Neuwirth on Inauguration Day in 2021.
“We’re carrying pink and or inexperienced tonight to indicate solidarity with our sister and our sisterhood and the entire founders who we all know are joyfully rejoicing in heaven,” says Consultant Frederica Wilson of Florida, who was additionally a member of the sorority’s Board of Administrators. Wilson wore a white blazer with a pink rose on the lapel (the pink tea rose is AKA’s official flower), a magenta wide-brimmed hat which matched her trousers, and a string of outsized pearls. The top of her outfit, nonetheless, was her pink-and-green gradient purse embossed with the letters “AKA.”
