Jamaican-American Woman Elected to US Senate!
Kamala Harris breaks a colour barrier with U.S. Senate win!
On Tuesday (November 8), California voters elected Kamala Harris, to the US Senate, breaking a colour barrier that has stood for as long as California statehood.
Harris, who has a Jamaican father has now become the first black politician in history to represent California in the Senate and only the second black woman in the nation’s history to serve in Congress’ upper chamber.
She soundly beat her rival – fellow Democrat Loretta Sanchez for the open Senate seat.
Harris is a lawyer, politician, and member of the Democratic Party, who has been the 32nd and current Attorney General of California since 2011.
Harris was born in California’s East Bay. She is the daughter of a Tamil mother, Dr. Shyamala Harris, a breast cancer specialist who came to the United States from India in 1960 to study at the University of California at Berkeley, and a Jamaican American father, a Stanford University economics professor.
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