Her parents were civil rights activists
Kamala Harris’ father is Jamaican and her mother is Indian. Her mother. Shyamala Gopalan, emigrated from India in 1960 to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and pursue a doctorate in endocrinology.
It’s important to note that both of her parents were involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Harris proudly shared on her social media accounts that her parents are why she chose to take to the streets to fight for justice. Her parents laid the path for her and she became the second Black woman ever elected to the United States Senate. That is when Harris began to write history.
Even though the fight for justice continues, Kamala Harris strongly believes change is possible.
When she was just 7 years old, her parents decided to divorce. Harris wrote in her book, “The Truths We Hold” that they didn’t have serious reasons to fight about and never fought about money. The parents took different paths but her father remained a part of their lives. Harris and her sister lived with their mother who shaped them into the women they both became.
