Vice President-elect
Kamala Harris's
parents
,
Donald Harris
and
Shyamala Gopalan
, grew up under British colonial rule in opposite parts of the world.
Both came to the Berkeley campus of the University of California, yearning for a professional training and were part of an intellectual circle that shaped the rest of their lives.
Senator Kamala often tells the romance story of her parents, who were idealistic foreign graduate students.
In addition, they were fully involved in the civil rights movement in the United States, a different story from the classic American immigration story.
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play
on the video above and knows all the details!
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