On Saturday, President Joe Biden became the first U.S. leader to recognize the mass killing of Armenians in the early 1900s as a “genocide.” Saturday marks the annual Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, when an estimated 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923.
Lawmakers, activists and celebrities have been pushing for this recognition. Kim Kardashian, who visited the Armenian Genocide Museum, and is of Armenian descent through her late father Robert Kardashian Sr., has long spoken out for recognition of the atrocities.
In 2010, on the 100th anniversary of the genocide, Kardashian wrote that “we won't give up” in her push for awareness.