PROFILE: Harris known as trailblazer during her career as prosecutor, senator

Harris, a 56-year-old former senator, was born in Oakland, California. Her father immigrated to the United States from Jamaica to study economics and her mother came from India to eventually become a breast cancer researcher.Her parents were active in the civil rights movement and took to the streets to protest, bringing the young Kamala along in her stroller.Her parents split when she was five years old and she and her younger sister were mostly raised by their mother, who instilled in them a sense of identity as "proud, strong black women" and also taught them to appreciate their Indian h…READ FULL ARTICLE