Kamala Harris speaks about family, heritage

Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president on Wednesday, cementing her place in history as the first Black woman on a major party ticket and promising she and Joe Biden will rejuvenate a country ravaged by a pandemic and riven by racial and partisan divides

Harris immediately embraced the weight of her nomination, invoking her late mother, an Indian immigrant and cancer researcher.

She said her mother raised her sister Maya and herself to be  "strong Black women" and "to know and be proud of our Indian heritage."