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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...
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Aug 14, 2020 · In 2019, accusations swirled on Twitter that Harris was not an “American Black” because her father was a Jamaican immigrant, rather than the descendant of enslaved people (these rumors later ...
Jul 23, 2024 · THE FACTS: This is false. Harris is Black and Indian. Her father, Donald Harris, is a Black man who was born in Jamaica. Shyamala Gopalan, her mother, was born in southern India....
Shyamala Gopalan [a] (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, [5] whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. [6]
Aug 18, 2020 · For Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris, the U.S. was — and in some ways still is — defined by a Black-white dichotomy. Moreover, the “one-drop rule” that defined anyone with African ancestry as Black — and therefore relegated them to second-class status — still permeated post-Jim Crow America.
Ms Harris has made history - she's the first woman and first black and South Asian American to become the US vice-president.
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Jan 26, 2021 · Ms Harris has made history - she's the first woman and first black and South Asian American to become the US vice-president.
