In the recent history of the United States, she was often a pioneer: the first prosecutor from California’s minorities, the first black senator from the same state, the first woman and the first African-American to become the American vice-president. Kamala Harris is undoubtedly an exceptional character. Daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, she rubbed shoulders with the big names in the fight for civil rights from her childhood. Married to a New York Jew, today she symbolizes in the eyes of her sympathizers the America of tomorrow. Alexis Buisson, correspondent in the United States for several European media, has devoted a book to him, entitled Kamala Harris, the heiress.
