For Harris, memories of a warrior mother guide her campaign

Speaking from the Senate floor for the first time, Kamala Harris expressed gratitude for a woman on whose shoulders she said she stood.

In her autobiography, Harris interspersed the well-worn details of her resume with an extended ode to the one she calls "the reason for everything."
"She's always told the same story," says friend Mimi Silbert. "Kamala had one important role model, and it was her mother."
"She'd say, 'Well, what are you going to do about it?'" Harris told the crowd. "So I decided to run for president of the United States."
For two freethinking young people drawn to activism, they landed on campus from opposite sides of the world just as protests exploded around civil rights, the Vietnam
"I was in awe of the knowledge that they seemed to demonstrate," said Labrie, who grew so close to the family that the senator calls him "Uncle Aubrey."
"Even back then," Johnson-Batiste says, "she has always stood up for what she thought was right."
As high school wound down, she homed in on a career goal of being a lawyer. Sophie Maxwell, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, says