Donald Harris, Kamala’s Father, Was Important Jamaican-American Economist
The father of Kamala Harris seems to have played a small role in her life. In her DNC acceptance speech, she referred to him cryptically. She did say that he taught her to be “fearless.”
Donald Harris with his daughter Kamala.
Her parents met as civil rights activists in the early 1960s. They were married, she was born in 1964, and her sister Maya was b…
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