↑Sources for label "African American" or "black" include:
"African American Senators". United States Senate. Diakses tanggal 1 July 2018. Kamala D. Harris (D-CA) became the first African American to represent California in the United States Senate on January 3, 2017.
"Kamala Harris's File". PolitiFact. Diakses tanggal 1 July 2018. Harris, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016. She became California's attorney general in January 2011. She was the first woman and the first African-American to hold the office in California's history.
Weigel, David (January 9, 2018). "Democrats Add Harris, Booker to Senate Judiciary Committee". The Washington Post. Diakses tanggal 1 July 2018. The Senate Judiciary Committee will welcome its first African American members in this century after Democrats added Sens. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to the panel that handles judicial nominations and appointments to the Justice Department.
McPhate, Mike (September 29, 2016). "California Today: A Snooze of a Senate Race". The New York Times. Diakses tanggal 2 July 2018. The race to succeed Senator Barbara L. Boxer of California was supposed to be one of the marquee contests of the year ... It offers a window into the ethnic kaleidoscope that is California: Pitting a Latino, Representative Loretta Sanchez, against an African-American, Kamala Harris, the state attorney general.