Pearls for the Girls

BRENTWOOD, NEW YORK (JANUARY 2021)—In commemoration of the country’s historical inauguration—Kamala Harris being the first Black woman and first woman of South Asian descent to be elected vice president—female students in the Brentwood Union Free School District (BUFSD) joined women across the country in wearing pearls, an element of Kamala’s signature look.

Antoinette Shervington, a Brentwood Freshman Center Guidance Counselor, spearheaded the initiative in celebration of the significance of a female holding the second-highest position in the United States. Ms. Shervington distributed pearls, courtesy of the Cedarmore Foundation, at the homes of Freshman Center students involved in Girls Inc., a non-profit organization with the central goal of empowering and inspiring girls and young women. Vice President Kamala Harris’ signature look, a strand of 20 pearls, represents the 20 founders and incorporators of her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first intercollegiate historically African American Greek-lettered sorority.

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