After 241 years, the nation’s second-largest city has its first female mayor.⁠ ⁠ Karen Bass was sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris as Los Angeles’ 43rd mayor Sunday afternoon.⁠ ⁠ Bass used her history-making moment to emphasize her place within a constellation of barrier-breaking California women. The first Black woman elected mayor of Los Angeles was joined by the first female vice president, the first woman to lead the California Senate and California’s first female lieutenant governor.⁠ ⁠ Harris is also the first Black or Asian American vice president, and Senate President Pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins is also the first openly LGBT person to lead the statehouse’s upper chamber.⁠ ⁠ In remarks prepared for delivery, Bass honored Harris, Atkins and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, saying, “Making history with each of you today is a monumental moment in my life and for Los Angeles. The four of us — Californians, leaders, women.”⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in bio.⁠ 📷️: @jason_armond