'The toughest boss I've ever had,' said BART board member Lateefah Simon. 'However, the best leader I have ever worked for.'
Ryan CurryBay Area native Kamala Harris' childhood friend and former colleague are rallying to support the VP as she makes a bid for presidency.Carole Porter walks along Browning Street before stopping at the street corner where a bus used to pick her up and take her to school.
She says the busses were marked with animals so the students could easily know which one they would take. Among those 10 students was current"We swam in the summer, we played games, we went to band camp," she said. "At the end of the day, the most fun thing was coming outside at probably about 5 o'clock in the summer and everybody being outside and just playing together - it was wonderful.
"It was a redlined neighborhood," she said. "This was the Berkeley flat lands and redlining and yellowlining was a way of segregating people back in the 60s and 70s." "The community we had was strong, and when one person uplifted themselves, everyone got uplifted," she said. "It was a wonderful place to grow up. And I think it really influenced her and gave her some good grounding and some good learning to have her be where she is today."Watch Kamala Harris' journey from Berkeley to be 1st Black, Asian woman elected to vice presidency
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