Poets Corner - The Curious Case of Kamala Harris' Childhood Home

The Vice President calls herself a 'daughter of Oakland'. But she spent her childhood in next door Berkeley

Sep 08, 2024

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The duplex in Berkeley where the Democratic candidate spent seven years of her childhood

ONLY ONE candidate in the 2024 Presidential race spent a chunk of - pronoun spoiler alert - her childhood less than 20 miles from my home in Marin. Kamala Harris was born across the San Francisco Bay in Oakland, California, and, after a brief spell in Illinois, whe…

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