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Some of America\u2019s most prominent Black women across politics, business and entertainment joined thousands of their peers on\u00a0a Sunday night Zoom<\/a> call to galvanize support for Vice President Kamala Harris, raising $1.5 million in just three hours.<\/p>\n Some 44,000 Black women, including Representative Maxine Waters of California, one of the most senior Black women in Congress, and other lawmakers\u00a0including Joyce Beatty and Jasmine Crockett, talked of rallying behind Harris\u00a0for the US presidential election\u00a0against Donald Trump this November.\u00a0<\/p>\n Reverend Bernice King, daughter of civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.\u00a0and chief executive officer of The King Center, said that while she had been voting since she was 18, she had never endorsed a candidate publicly, until now.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m 100% in her corner, I\u2019m going to be very strategic in the way that I move forward,\u201d King said on the call.<\/p>\n Win With Black Women, a political advocacy group that organized the call, later said it raised $1.5 million in three hours for Harris\u2019 election campaign, joining a rush of other donations as Democrats raised more than $50 million online Sunday after President Joe Biden said he wouldn\u2019t run for reelection.<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s decision to step aside and endorse Harris could\u00a0pose a threat<\/a>\u00a0to the Trump campaign. Polls had shown Black voters, who overwhelmingly supported Biden during the 2020 election, had been moving\u00a0away from the Democratic party following concerns about inflation, slow progress on civil-rights issues and the president\u2019s support for Israel in the\u00a0war in Gaza. Trump, meanwhile, had sought to make gains with Black voters. \u00a0<\/p>\n Others on the call included former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile, Washington, DC mayor Muriel Bowser and Maryland\u2019s First Lady Dawn Moore. Maryland governor Wes Moore later\u00a0issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0supporting Harris\u2019 candidacy. The huge attendance for the call meant that organizers had to ask Zoom Video Communications Inc.\u00a0to\u00a0extend the capacity<\/a>\u00a0limit for the meeting, which the video conferencing company was able to do for the\u00a0customer.<\/p>\n Representative Beatty, a Democrat representing Ohio in Congress, urged attendees to use their platforms to rally support for Harris in their communities.\u00a0\u201cWe come with a strong message because we\u2019re in the fight, we\u2019re on this journey, we realize the magnitude of this moment,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Win With Black Women organizers didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment. Bloomberg News reviewed a stream of the call that was posted to the social media platform X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n