>> no, shyamala's mother.amala harris is grandmother -- kamala harris is grandmother. >> she described her grandmother is someone without a high school education but who was very active in her community and was a leader somewhat in her community. she has said she would go out into villages and distribute and talk about birth control and contraception in her grandfather would say, your mother is going to get me out of a job, a joke. so while shyamala's mother was not educated in the conventional sense, descriptions of her are that she was quite progressive, very active in the community, in a leader in her community. >> what i want to explore is, these attributes to become a pioneering -- where these attributes to become a pioneering immigrant to the united states came from. it sounds like the progressivism -- the progressivism of her mother's part is one answer to that question. >> and her father's. in india, especially back then, it is really the father who would make the decision as to whether their 19-year-o

journalist rikha sharma rani talks about her profile of vice president kamala harris's late mother shyamala. she came to the united from india. and professor de k

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