DAILY OPS

ATLANTA — When Yolanda Latimore, the owner of a Macon, Ga., advertising agency, makes a list of those who showed her how to survive and thrive as a Black woman, she begins with her 91-year-old grandmother, Clarise Bonner, a former sharecropper who lacked a formal education yet ran a small business while also raising a family.

But on Saturday, Ms. Latimore, 46, was making room in her personal pantheon for Kamala Devi Harris, the running mate of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. Soon, Ms. Harris will become the first woman — and the first Black woman — to become vice president of the United States.

At a time when a range of racial and gender barriers have been shattered by earlier trailblazers, Ms. Latimore said that Ms. Harris’s ascension to the highest levels of power was particularly important, giving Black girls everywhere a reminder that anything is possible.

“I know that it won’t solve all problems, but it definitely will raise the spirit and the drive of Black women,” Ms. Latimore said, adding that she was “just so glad to see something like this happen.”