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- My mother, Shyamala, raised my sister, Maya, and me to believe that it was up to us and every generation of Americans to keep on marching. She’d tell us, "Don’t sit around and complain about things, do something." So I did something, I devoted my life to making real the words carved in the United States Supreme Court, equal justice under law.
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May 2, 2024 · Shyamala went on to raise Kamala and Maya “mostly on her own.”. In her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech, Kamala said her mother “worked around the clock to make it work ...
Sep 13, 2020 · How Kamala Harris’s Immigrant Parents Found a Home, and Each Other, in a Black Study Group. Donald Harris and Shyamala Gopalan grew up under British colonial rule on different sides of the ...
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Jan 26, 2021 · Shyamala Gopalan: The woman who inspired Kamala Harris. Shyamala Gopalan was a pioneering woman of colour in America, a scientist and an activist. She was also Vice-President Kamala...
After her parents divorced, Harris and her younger sister Maya were raised by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a single parent. Harris recalls she “had a stroller-eye view of the Civil Rights movement” as she went with her mother to marches. These early experiences inspired her to make it her life’s work to fight against injustice.
Oct 21, 2020 · Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a scientist and activist who died a little over a decade ago, instilled in her daughters not just a sense of civic duty but the drive that eventually led them to the...
Jan 26, 2021 · US Election 2020. Alamy. Shyamala Gopalan was a pioneering woman of colour in America, a scientist and an activist. She was also Vice-President Kamala Harris's mother and her "greatest...
Oct 25, 2020 · But even after the divorce, Gopalan was keen on raising her daughters as Black. Kamala and Maya sang in the children’s choir at a Black Baptist church.
