Kamala Harris ’ parents, Donald J. Harris and Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, came to the United States to pursue their dreams — but never envisioned a future where their daughter would one day become vice ...

Kamala Harris has called her mother’s decision an act of “self-determination and love.” In 1964, at age 25, Gopalan received her doctorate and gave birth to Kamala. Two years later, she gave birth to ...

Kamala Harris credits her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, with informing her worldview and inspiring her to break glass ceilings in her own career. The vice president was born to Shyamala, an ...

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at length about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, during her speech on the final day of the 2024 Democratic National Convention where she formally accepted the ...

“I was born,” she declared, “as a daughter of the civil rights movement.” The year was 1964. Donald Harris, Kamala’s father, had come from Jamaica to pursue a doctorate in economics at the University ...

FILE - San Francisco's new district attorney, Kamala Harris, right, with her mother Dr. Shyamala Gopalan holding a copy of The Bill of Rights, receives the oath of office from California Supreme ...

Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was 70 when she died of colon cancer in February 2009.

Kamala Devi Harris was born Oct. 20, 1964, in Oakland, California, to Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer scientist who emigrated to the United States from India when she was 19 years old, and ...

- History in Chicago. Last night, Kamala Harris became the first woman of color to accept a major party's nomination for U.S. president. On the final night of the Democratic National Convention in ...

Shyamala Gopalan steadies Kamala as a toddler. Gopalan gave birth to Kamala the same year she got her doctorate, 1964. Almost immediately, Gopalan gravitated to the Black community and found common ...