Just hours after President Biden announced Sunday he was ending his reelection campaign and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris, more than 40,000 Black women joined a virtual call to discuss mobilizing efforts to support her.

The call was initially intended for 1,000 participants, but it quickly increased as word spread. By midnight, the group, Win with Black Women, raised more than $1.5 million for Harris' campaign.

It's not happenstance that Black women are rallying quickly for this historic moment: a chance to show that a Black woman who is also Asian American could be president of the United States. They have been at the helm of Democratic organizing for decades — a steady, consistent force in politics. Torchbearers of democracy.

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