Kamala Harris makes history as America's 1st woman Vice President; her story of many firsts

Kamala Harris is the daughter of an Indian mother and an African-American father from Jamaica. She was born in Oakland, California, in 1964, to parents who raised her in a bassinet of civil rights activism. Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris from Chennai, was a breast cancer researcher who died of cancer in 2009. Harris' father, Donald, is a Jamaican American professor of economics.