US Vice President Kamala Harris will attend the Cricket Celebration Bowl in Atlanta on Saturday to support her alma mater Howard University as it plays FAMU for the HBCU national championship, her press secretary confirmed yesterday.
Harris will watch the game from a suite at Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The game will kick off at noon and air live on ABC.
During the game, Harris will sit for an interview with ESPN’s Tiffany Greene and Jay “Sky” Walker. Other details of her schedule before and after the game are still being finalized.
The Celebration Bowl is a celebration of HBCU excellence, and there is no better example of that excellence than VP Harris.
Howard won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference title in November to earn the university’s first Celebration Bowl berth. The MEAC is 6-1 in Celebration Bowl play since the inaugural game in 2015.
Harris, who graduated from Howard in 1986, is the first woman and first graduate of a historically Black college or university to be elected as vice president.
Harris also attended the Howard men’s basketball team’s first-round NCAA tournament game against Kansas in March at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. After the Bison lost 96-68, Harris spoke with the team in the locker room.