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Treasured family Bible to play role in Kamala Harris’ inauguration Treasured family bible to play role in Kamala Harris’ inauguration A family bible belonging to a woman Kamala Harris has described as a second mother will play an important role in the Inauguration Day ceremony in Washington. OAKLAND, Calif. - Family and lifelong friends of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris brought one priceless item from the Bay Area to Washington, D.C. for Wednesday's historic Inauguration Day ceremony. That treasure is the Shelton family Bible which belonged to Regina Shelton, a woman Harris has ...

WASHINGTON — Kamala Devi Harris strutted between the metal barricades and the sparse crowd along Pennsylvania Avenue, clutching her grandniece’s hand and waving at cheering supporters. As she approached the

| Credit: TASOS KATOPODIS/POOL/AFP/Getty "I'm just so proud of her and so grateful to be able to see how she continues to honor my grandmother's legacy," Smith tells The Mercury News.  Smith and her mother, Sharon Shelton McGaffie, aunt Judy Shelton Robinson and Derreck Johnson, a close childhood friend of Harris's, the outlet reports, are all attending the inauguration.  In the epilogue of his 2017 book   Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose, Biden detailed his priori...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Surrounded By Their Big, Close, Modern, Families for Inauguration People 1/20/2021 © OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris (L) greets stepchildren Cole Emhoff and Ella Emhoff For all the traditional (but socially distanced) pomp and constitutional circumstance of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris being sworn in to the nation's highest offices, Wednesday's ceremony on the Capitol steps was a family affair for their two large, close-knit clans.  "Family is everything to me," Harris said during a speech in August. And family is so important...

Harris was born in Oakland and lived in neighboring Berkeley, where her parents studied at the University of California, Berkeley, until she was 12 years old. She served as San Francisco district attorney, and California attorney general, before becoming the state’s junior senator. Harris has frequently cited her experiences growing up in the Bay Area as foundational in her political career, including being bussed into wealthier white schools as part of an integration program. On Wednesday, residents of the region proudly watched her ascend to one of the highest offices in the land. An Oakl...