Get to know new vice president Kamala Harris' parents Shyamala Gopalan and Donald J. Harris, where they immigrated from, how her mom died, and what Kamala's relationship is like with her father.
Her parents divorced when Harris was 7 years old. Harris wrote in her memoir, "The Truths We Hold" that "they didn't fight about money. The only thing they fought about was who got the books." Though her father remained a part of their lives, Harris and her sister lived with their ...
As a child growing up in Jamaica, I often heard it said, by my parents and family friends: “memba whe yu cum fram”. To this day, I continue to retain the deep social awareness and strong sense of identity which that grassroots Jamaican philosophy fed in me. As a father, I naturall...
Kamala Harris credits her parents' activism during the civil rights movement for her political career.
Her relationship with fellow-activist Donald Harris grew under the clamor of the protests and Kamala Harris recalls, “My parents often brought me in a stroller with them to civil rights marches.” In this environment, she wrote, “My mother understood very well that she was raising two Black...
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is the first woman, Black person, and Asian American to serve in the role. Read about her age, husband, parents, and more.
On the surface, Harris should be the picture of the American Dream. The daughter of immigrants—her mother immigrated from India in 1960 and her father from Jamaica in 1961. Until her parents divorced when she was seven, Harris grew up in Berkley. And that is where, if you re...
The father of Sen. Kamala Harris is trying to distance himself from the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful after she said her smoking pot in college stemmed from her Jamaican heritage.
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“Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty,” Harris’ father said in a statement.