This 2007 photo provided by the Kamala Harris campaign shows her with her mother, Shyamala, at a Chinese New Year parade. Previous NextSpeaking from the Senate floor for the first time, Kamala Harris expressed gratitude for a woman on whose shoulders she said she stood, Matt Sedensky writes. Gopalan Harris’ mother took in victims of domestic abuse and educated women about contraception. Gopalan Harris relished roles in her daughter’s early campaigns but was gone before seeing her advance beyond a local office. “There is no title or honor on earth I’ll treasure more than to say I am Shyamala Gopalan Harris’ daughter,” she wrote.

Source: The Standard August 14, 2020 14:31 UTC