Updated - July 22, 2024 06:50 am IST
Published - August 18, 2020 04:46 pm IST
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris has been named running mate of presidential nominee Joe Biden . She is the first black and Indian American woman on a major party presidential ticket in U.S. history. She was born in 1964, to the late Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher from Chennai, and Donald Harris, an economics professor from Jamaica.
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