“We cried and clapped and cheered. It was just really beautiful. We prayed, we sang the Star-Spangled Banner, we had our hands on our hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance.”
— Lateefah Simon, 43, after she and her 9-year-old daughter, Lelah, dressed up in their “inauguration clothes” and watched her friend Kamala Harris be sworn in as the first Black woman U.S. Vice President.