Sixty is the new golden age: meet the stellar generation hitting this milestone

It is no coincidence that next month, a matter of weeks before she may become the first Black female president of the United States, the former prosecutor will turn 60. There’s a party to look forward to before we even get to the big one on 5 November! On her 60th birthday, Kamala will be joining a roster of sexagenarians who are putting the oomph and the whoosh and the we-can-do-this into turning 60 – not as overnight success stories, but as grafters who’ve been in it for the long-haul, as comedian Wanda Sykes made clear on turning 60 in March. “I finally hit what I said I wanted to do when I started out… It’s taken more than 30 years to get to that place where I’m doing what I said I wanted to do.”