“Democracy is a goal to which our nation is marching … out of the darkness of slavery to the light of freedom.”

Civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune uttered those words on a NBC radio program in 1939. It is a goal the country has yet to fully realize.

However, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago we marched one step closer, to the light of freedom, when Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black and Asian-American woman officially accepted the nomination to be our party’s candidate for president of the United States of America.