Beyoncé’s Madness at Kamala Harris’ Democratic National Convention Reaches Peak

CHICAGO, Ill. — Almost everyone at the Democratic National Convention is anticipating the excitement of American pop star Beyoncé, especially Kamala Harris’ sorority sisters, who will be given VIP treatment at the historic occasion.

“We love Kamala and we are here for her,” Cynthia Kramer Osagay told The Daily Beast in a text message. Ha As the woman they consider to be the star of the show. Although the truth is that they all want to see Queen Bee as well.

The entire convention is filled with rumors and high hopes that the global superstar will make a dramatic appearance on Thursday night when Harris accepts her party’s nomination to be the first black female president. If so, it’s one of the most closely guarded pieces of information, especially since The Chicks will be singing the national anthem to kick off the ceremony on Thursday night, and Pink has already started singing. It was announced As a closing night performer.

Even Democratic National Convention Chairwoman Minyon Moore admitted she doesn’t know everything about everyone: “I think anything can be a surprise, even to us sometimes,” Moore told MSBNC earlier this week when asked about the rumors.

White House policy director Amy Ruiz added to the buzz on Thursday when she tweeted a bee emoji — a symbol that Beyoncé fans have long used online.

A senior Democratic National Committee source told The Daily Beast that the only DNC official who would know for sure whether a global star like Beyoncé would be at Kamalapalooza would be Ricky Kirschneran award-winning live television event producer who coordinates the entire production in Chicago.

If Taylor Swift, who has time off until her next concert on her Eras tour in Miami on Oct. 18, appears to be fulfilling the Democrats’ wildest dreams, only Kirschner will know. A Democratic national party official with intimate knowledge of the planning, who asked not to be identified (because he would be at risk of speaking freely about the most sensitive topic of the forum), said he “cannot confirm or deny” whether Beyoncé will grace the convention Thursday night. Questions about the Swift rumors have not even been answered.

If Queen Bee Beyoncé performs [Friday] “It would be appropriate, a gift from one queen to another, but a democratic gift,” said Harris’s former colleague Kramer Osagai.

Osagai, a sales professional living in Washington, D.C., graduated from Howard with Harris in 1986. At her mother’s home in Chicago, her sister Imelda Kramer Brown hosted more than two dozen former classmates who were Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority members with Harris this week. Brown was Harris’s “dean of vows” at Howard.

Guests included Valerie Pepin, Monique PoydrasKarla Stern Manning, Joel Powers Oxley, and Paulette Murphy, who was the “Dean of Song and Step” during her time as a student, the year she started. A current AKA member and Howard University journalism student joined the alumni to interview them about their relationships with Harris.

Cynthia Kramer

There will be a special section reserved inside the convention space for the so-called “Divine Nine” — historically African American fraternities and sororities — “because they’ve been part of her history, part of her journey, so you’ll see all the colors of fraternities and sororities come together,” said Moore, the conference chair and also an AKA alumna.

Perhaps it comes as no surprise that black women It was filled almost immediately. They helped generate unprecedented fundraising, massive crowds, and star power.

Beyoncé had her party endorsing Harris and launching the use of her 2016 hit “Freedom” as Harris’s campaign theme song. Then Donald Trump called for her potential legal wrath when his campaign brazenly stole the song for a social media video.

“Freedom” blared at the United Center on Monday as Harris took the stage. Many Democrats at the convention made it clear they were hoping to see Beyoncé by wearing colorful cowboy hats and “Cowboy Kamala” belts, a reference to the star’s latest country-based album. cowboy carter.

Even obsessed US senators were talking about the possibility.

“Words cannot express how proud we are of her accomplishments,” Kramer Osagai said of her friend and sorority sister who will watch her make history Thursday.