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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.