Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris delivered a powerful tribute to her late mother, Dr. Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a figure who profoundly influenced her life and career at the Democratic ...

Vice President Kamala Harris has often spoken about her mother's influence on her and her passion for politics Kamala Harris credits her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, with informing her ...

She added, "There is no title or honor on earth I’ll treasure more than to say I am Shyamala Gopalan Harris’s daughter.” As Kamala was primarily raised by her mother, she had a profound ...

One of the most frequently mentioned people at the Democratic National Convention this week has been someone not in the room: Shyamala Gopalan, Vice President Kamala Harris's late mother.

Speaking about the inauguration on Good Morning America, Harris previously explained, "I was raised by a mother who said that to me all the time: 'Kamala, well, you may be the first to do many ...

When Kamala Harris talks about her South Asian identity, it’s usually in the context of her mother, Shyamala Gopalan. The same was true Thursday night during Harris' speech on the fourth night ...

Everyone told me, if you truly want to understand who Kamala Harris is and how she got that way, you need to talk to her mother. I wrangled a meeting with Dr. Harris, then a researcher at Lawrence ...

Kamala Harris would go to visit her father’s family in Brown’s Town, Jamaica, and her mother’s, in Chennai, India. Her parents separated while they were living in Madison and Shyamala ...

And she wanted me to wave at her grandparents." Kamala's father, Donald Harris, is Jamaican American. And while Harris has described her mother as the more formative parent in her life ...

preparing to deliver their mother-daughter duet of a convention speech, when Kamala Harris strode toward them, the hall still resounding with cheers from the Democratic presidential nominee’s ...