Vice president Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, takes the stage to deliver a concession speech at Howard University, in Washington, on Nov 6. Photo: The New York Times
Kamala Harris speaking at Howard University was to be an image for history: a record of the first woman president, not to mention the first Black female president and the first president of South Asian descent, giving her victory speech.
Instead, what turned out to be her concession speech became the coda to an unprecedented election; the end of one story, rather than the beginning of another.
