Kamala Harris, flanked by her husband Doug Emhoff, is sworn in as the 49th US Vice President by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on January 20, 2021, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC.

Harris, the daughter of immigrant parents from Jamaica and India, identifies as Black/African American while also embracing her Indian heritage. Yet the questions in social media and news outlets ...

As an Indian-American professor of African-American history, I am experiencing Biden’s vice-presidential pick as a personal gift. Aug. 12, 2020 Kamala Harris with her mother, Shyamala, in 2007.

Sen. Kamala Harris is the first Black woman and first Asian American vice presidential candidate on a major party ticket. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) By Matt Pearce Staff Writer ...

And so radio show host and author Mark Levin opened his show with the declaration that the media is lying because Harris is “not African-American,” again pointing to her parentage.

Harris, whose mother was born in India and whose father was from Jamaica, has always identified as both Indian American and Black. Trump appears to be trying to resurrect bogus social media claims ...

On different occasions, Harris has described herself as “a woman of color,” and “American,” instead of black or African American, fueling questions about whether she is ‘black enough ...

Today, inauguration day, we celebrate Kamala Harris, the first African American elected as vice president. Harris brings a list of firsts aside from being the first African American: she is the ...

But the desire to see Harris as only Black or worry that she is not truly African American derives from the racist U.S. past of the one-drop rule of racial impurity, which sociologist F. James ...

Jesse Watters: Kamala Harris is “not African American, technically, because she has a Jamaican dad” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 07/31/24 5:41 PM EDT ...

After I exhale, I see tears journeying down every face in our African American and South Asian family’s home. A family that has more in common with Harris than we ever have with any politician.