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On Friday, Madam Vice President was bound for Atlanta, Georgia for her second We Can Do This," vaccination state tour, on Monday she was in Greenville, South Carolina. The tour helps with vaccine education and outreach efforts in order to reach President Biden's goal of getting 70 percent of Americans vaccinated by July 4.

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She arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport where she was welcomed by the State's federal legislator Georgia's 5th congressional district Representative Congresswoman Nikema Williams, Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, Atlanta's Mayor Keisha Bottoms.

1) She began her tour at a pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site at Ebenezer Baptist Church. The Church is a historic church in the black community located in Atlanta's Sweet Auburn district where many US civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr had preached in the 1960s

During informal remarks to those who were being administered vaccines, the Vice President urged people, “These vaccines are safe and effective. It will save your life and the lives of people you love,” she also said “to get the word out” to help their friends and neighbours overcome obstacles to getting vaccinated like needing childcare and fear of needles.

She was accompanied by Congresswoman Nikema Williams, from right, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Senator Jon Ossoff, Senator Raphael Warnock, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Dr. Jayne Morgan, Cardiologist and the Executive Director of the COVID Task Force at the Piedmont Healthcare Corporation

2) After she departed for Clark Atlanta University, where she gave remarks at a COVID vaccination mobilization event. During her remarks, she said,“But there are some people, a lot of people might say, ‘I haven’t been vaccinated yet because I’m just not sure," she also acknowledged people's hesitancy, "It is OK to have questions," and she urged Atlantans to tell their friends and neighbours: “We can say with confidence the vaccines are safe, they are free and they are effective.”

Clark Atlanta University is a private Methodist historically black research university in Atlanta, Georgia. The University is the first HBCU in the Southern United States founded on September 19th 1865 as Atlanta University, it consolidated with Clark College to form Clark Atlanta University in 1988.

3) After giving the remarks she participated in a close room conversation on voting rights with community leaders.

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Thursday marked a historical day. With many years of campaigning to mark Juneteenth a Federal Holiday, it finally came through with both the Vice President and then the Presidents signing into a Federal Day.

The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act bill was passed overwhelmingly by the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday in a 415 to 14 vote after clearing the Senate unanimously, was first by the House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi then signed Vice President Harris who in her role as President of the Senate signed her first bill in the Roosevelt Room with a bust of Frederick Douglas looking on.

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The bill had been championed for years by Black legislators in the US Congress led by Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas.

Then she move on and joined President Biden in the East Room for the President's signature to the bill into law. Before that the Vice President gave remarks, “Today is a day of celebration,” said Vice President Harris. “It is not only a day of pride, it is also a day for us to reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to action.”

She also went on and reminded the 80+ White House guests who were invited which included Congress Legislators who helped passed in the bill, that they were gathered in a "house built by enslaved people," and said the holiday would be an occasion to "reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to action."

The campaign to federally recognise Juneteenth also as known as the US’s “Second Independence Day” began with Opal Lee, a 94-year-old Texan and many other Civil Rights Activists of her generation who has campaigned her entire life to make Juneteenth a national holiday.

Juneteenth which is marked on June 19th previously known as Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day or Emancipation Day commemorates the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, when the last enslaved Black Americans were told they were free during the US Civil War between Confederate slave-holding states in the south and Union free states in the north

Confederate forces surrendered in April 1865, but the message of liberation did not reach the last enslaved Black people until June 19, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas. President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years ago, liberating American slaves in 1863.

Most US states already recognise Juneteenth as a holiday or have an official observance of the day with most been a paid holiday for state employees in Texas, New York, Virginia and Washington, DC.

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On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris began her vaccination tour with departing Joint Based Andrews for Greenville, South Carolina arriving at Greenville-Spartanburg Regional Airport.

The tour which for the Vice President is a five state campaign, begins in South Carolina is part of the Administration's part of a national effort to vaccinate 70% of American adults by July 4th. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Cabinet members will be making their way to states with some of the Nation's lowest vaccination rates like North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama and Louisiana. South Carolina joins them by having only fully vaccinated only 39% of its residents as of Monday morning, is also one of them.

2) She began the tour by speaking to people working at a COVID vaccination mobilization event held at the Phillis Wheatley Community Center and hosted by the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People(NAACP) Chapter in Greenville, South Carolina where she said the vaccine is safe, effective, and free.

The mobilization group is part of the effort to get those who still haven't gotten a shot their vaccine. She told the crowd that she understands the public's skepticism over the expedited development of the various COVID-19 Vaccines and explain that the research behind these where a results of many years of research into the various variants of the coronavirus.

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She also explained that being vaccinated is a form of community service. "This Act... is a projection of love thy neighbor," she added.

She also spoke about the other reasons as to why people are hesitating to getting administered their vaccines. "Part of the reason why people are hesitating to take their vaccines is because there are barriers that make it harder for people to access them," she said.

She spoke about the transportation barriers, and there are barriers that come from the lack of childcare and support experienced by parents, both before and after getting their shots.

3) Then she departed for the Caine Halter YMCA branch where she toured the five vaccination stations which were set up and managed by Walgreens.

Vice President Harris, who was accompanied by Walgreens CEO Rosalind Brewer and tour guide, Niki Pappos-Elledge, spoke to Lawanda Curry, a student from Greenville as she was getting the shot administered.

4) She also participated in a closed "listening session" to listen from local leaders about voting rights and registration

5) Before departing Greenville, she gaggle with the traveling press on the tarmac

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Later in the evening of June 7th, Madam Vice President depart Air Force Base in Guatemala City for her second trip arrives at Benito Juarez International Airport for her official visit to Mexico in Mexico City. She was welcome by the current Interim US Ambassador to Mexico, John S. Creamer

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June 8th:

1) Before the roundtable meeting with the Mexican authorities, Vice President Harris met with Mexico's Head of State President Andrés Manuel López Obrador where she was given a tour of the Palacio Nacional, which doubles as the President's Official residence, and showed her “The History of Mexico” by Diego Rivera.

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2) Then there was a signing of a memorandum of Understanding(MOU) which she witnessed, along with President Lopez Obrador, between the American and Mexican governments on migration cooperation on the Patio de Honor. The memorandum was to establish a strategic partnership to cooperate on development programs in the region

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3) Following that, the Vice President and the Mexican President met for private meetings and broader talks where it was reportedly said that the Vice President told Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that she saw him as a partner in tackling migration as they both agreed to deepen economic ties and invest to improve conditions in Central America.

Much of the focus for Tuesday's meeting was on improving livelihoods, and the United States pledged an additional $130 million over three years to support Mexican worker rights along with a goal of creating $250 million in investment and sales in southern Mexico, it said in a vaguely worded statement.

It was reported that the two sides will hold a meeting known as a high-level economic dialogue in September to look at ways to promote investment and make the most of a new trade deal, statements from both governments said.

Participating in the meeting from the Mexican side included: Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard; Government Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero and the head of the National Immigration Institute, Francisco Garduño.

Representing the United States apart from the Vice President, were the charge d’affaires at the US Embassy in Mexico, John S. Creamer, and the special US envoy for the Northern Triangle of Central America, Ricardo Zuñiga, Juan Gonzalez, a special assistant to US President Joe Biden and senior director of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere and among others.

4) Later she met with female entrepreneurs in a hotel in downtown Mexico City. During their meeting, she listened to their stories on their business, how the pandemic have affected their business, life as a woman in Mexico.

5) Then she met with labor leaders in Mexico to express the United State’s solidarity with them. Supporting them to encourage workers are strong, our economies are strong. After which she met with and greeted the US Embassy's Mexico staff.

6) Then she held a press conference and gaggled with the accredited media which traveled with the Vice President.

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Vice President Kamala Harris was bound for Annapolis, Maryland where she made history once again on Friday as the first woman and First Female Vice President to deliver the keynote commencement address at the U.S. Naval Academy, at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Whilst delivering her 20 minutes keynote address, she told graduates the country faces a "significant turning point." She began by saying this, "Midshipmen, we are now entering the next era. A new age. A new epoch, with its own challenges, and with its own opportunities,"

She also spoke about how interconnected, interdependent and fragile the World is especially with how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected everyone and shown the cracks in the World by saying this, "The global pandemic, you see, of course, has accelerated our world into a new era. If we weren't clear before, we know now: Our world is interconnected. Our world is interdependent. Our world is fragile."

She also addressed various challenges facing the nation and its service members, citing cybersecurity threats and climate change. Vice President Harris was then given her U.S. Naval Academy jacket at the graduation and commission ceremony

She as the first Black woman to be elected vice president gave a shout out and honoured to a new midshipman. Midshipman Sydney Barber made history of her own by becoming the first Black woman in the school's almost 175-year history to serve as brigade commander, who oversaw roughly 4,000 students this year.

She previously spoke with Midshipman Sydney Barber in a video call where like in her Friday address she told the Midshipman Barber and the graduating Navy Officers, "My ceremonial office was once occupied by the Secretary of the Navy, and displayed there, I have placed the shoulder boards of your brigade commander, Midshipman Sydney Barber."

While speaking via video to the Vice President, Midshipman Barber spoke about the STEM program which she helped launch and coordinate with the Navy for the children living around the base and the surrounding Annapolis.

Before the commissioning, Vice President Harris stopped by the United States Naval Academy Cemetery to pay respects to her former colleague in the Senate "a great and courageous American" GOP Sen. John McCain.

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On Wednesday, MVP Kamala Harris went to the State of Rhodes Island where she visited various places"

1) She departed Joint base Andrews on board Air Force 2 and landed at T.F. Green International Airport, in her first official trip to the Ocean State as vice president.

She was welcomed by the Secretary Raimondo, current Gov. Dan McKee, Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI 1st District) and Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI 2nd District) and Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

2) After landing in Providence, Vice President Harris who was accompanied by former Governor and now Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and current Gov. Dan McKee made an surprise stop at a small business, Books on the Square on the East Side of Providence, where they made some purchases

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The Vice President met with the store’s manager, Jennifer Kandarian, where Kandarian told the Vice President that the bookstore had moved to half online sales during the worst of COVID.

3) Vice President Harris then met with business owners as she touted how the Biden administration’s multi trillion-dollar American Jobs Plan will help Rhode Islanders at SE Greenhouse on Davol Square

During her meeting, she and Secretary Raimondo attended a “social impact speed pitch” event with "socially focused" Rhode Island entrepreneurs. Members of the Rhode Island congressional delegation attended the event.

4) Then Vice President Harris and Secretary Raimondo took part in a women-led small business roundtable discussion on Dyer Street.

Attending were:

Minnie Luong, founder and CEO of Chi Kitchen, an Asian food company located in Pawtucket that specializes in kimchi
Cheryl Zimmerman, an engineer by training who is the CEO of FarSounder, a Warwick-based company that develops and manufactures 3D sonar technology for maritime transportation and navigation safety
Jennifer Cavallaro, owner of The Beehive Cafe in Bristol
Christine Paige, Owner of Bliss Medical Hair Replacement Center in Providence
Suzanne Wernevi, owner of Luna & Stella, a fine jewelry business based in Providence

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Here's Madam Vice President's publicly known schedule for Tuesday:

1) At 10:15 am, she joined President Biden in the Oval Office to receive the President's Daily Briefings.

2) Then at 11:15, Vice President Harris and President Biden welcome the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' leadership committee in the Oval Office. President Biden and Vice President Harris spoke with CHC members about how we can work together to address COVID, get shots in arms, create jobs, and fix our broken immigration system.

President Biden and Vice President Harris also shared their vision in the American Jobs Plan to invest in shared CHC infrastructure priorities, including affordable housing and job creation.

The members who attended the meeting were:

Chairman Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.)

Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.),

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.),

Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.),

Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.)

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.)

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.)

3) Vice President Harris wrote a statement on the passing of her predecessor former Vice President Walter Mondale. The late former Vice President serve under President Jimmy Carter. Here is her statement

4.i) Prior to the verdict, Madam Vice President sat down for her first solo sit-down exclusive interview with CNN's Co-Anchor of State of the Union, Chief Political Correspondent, Dana Bash where she spoke about how the verdict finding former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of George Floyd's murder will not erase generations of trauma caused by systemic racism.

According to CNN, she also added "This verdict is but a piece of it," Harris told CNN's Dana Bash. "And it will not heal the pain that existed for generations, that has existed for generations among people who have experienced and first-hand witnessed what now a broader public is seeing because of smartphones and the ubiquity of our ability to videotape in real time what is happening in front of our faces. And that is the reality of it."

4.ii) Like the entire country and world was watching anxiously the verdict to Derek Chauvin's trial in Minnesota, President Biden and Vice President Harris were doing the same in the Situation Room. Accompanied by White House Advisor, former Representative Cedric Richmond

Derek Chauvin a former Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in a fatal arrest last May with a video showed Floyd, 46, pleading with Chauvin that he couldn’t breathe as the officer pinned him to the ground on the street, his knee on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes. The widely watched video sparked a worldwide protest against racism and excessive use of force by police

At 4:30 pm, the judge read the verdict which the jury found Chauvin guilty on three charges: second-degree murder, third degree murder and manslaughter.

Following the verdict being read, President Biden and Vice President Harris phoned the family of George Floyd.

Vice President was heard to have said this: "In George’s name and memory we are going to make sure his legacy is intact and that history will look back at this moment. But we really do believe that with your leadership and the president that we have in the White House that we’re going to make something good come out of this tragedy."

Then both Vice President Harris and President Biden address the nation at the Cross Hall. Vice President Harris began with this, "Today, we feel a sigh of relief. Still, it cannot take away the pain. A measure of justice isn’t the same as equal justice. This verdict brings us a step closer. And, the fact is, we still have work to do."

She also spoke about how during the system needs and must be reform, "We still must reform the system. Last summer, together with Senator Cory Booker and Representative Karen Bass, I introduced the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. This bill would hold law enforcement accountable and help build trust between law enforcement and our communities. This bill is part of George Floyd’s legacy."

You can read her remarks her: White House

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She is wearing her Altuzarra Fenice Blazer and Serge Pants, with her burgundy silk top. Paired with her Irene Neuwirth pearl Necklace

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On Monday, Madam Vice President was wheels up from Joint Base Andrews on board Air Force 2 for Piedmont Triad International Airport in Greensboro, North Carolina around 9:25 a.m. where she was welcomed by Governor Roy Asberry Cooper III, U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan greeted her to promote President Joe Biden's $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan.

This is her first time in North Carolina since January 20th.

1) Her first stop was in Guilford Technical Community College in Jameston where she toured and included delivering remarks on the American Jobs Plan and laying out a vision for the future of the local community college.

"We are going to take a giant leap into the future. That is what the American Jobs Plan is all about. It's a once-in-a-lifetime, once-in-a-generation investment in America's infrastructure, in America's future. It is what the American people deserve," the Vice President said.

"A chunk of the spending proposed in the plan would go to community colleges and job-training programs to help people obtain the needed skills beyond a high school education to obtain jobs in growing fields where they can succeed," Harris said.

2) Then she took a detour to visit the Woolworth store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. She sat at the F.W Woolworth lunch counter

The store was the site of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, which led to the department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the South.

3) Vice President Harris then toured Thomas Built Buses in High Point. Thomas Built Buses is a manufacturer of electric school buses.

During her tour, she spoke with union workers and watched how bus parts were assembled. As part of her remarks while there, she said The American Jobs Plan will keep our kids healthy and create jobs by investing $20 billion in electric school buses to get us closer to 100% electric school buses across the nation.

Gov. Roy Cooper and Michael Regan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator and former environmental chief in North Carolina, accompanied the Vice President

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