Sen. Kamala Harris, the first black woman and Asian American to be a U.S. vice presidential nominee on a major-party ticket, is known as a skilled debater with a former prosecutor's toughness.Harris, 55, was born in California to highly educated immigrant parents, her father having come from Jamaica and her mother from India. 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 th…READ FULL ARTICLE
