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Viva Kamala Devi Harris – Again GEORGE BRAINE Note: This is an updated version of an article I wrote in 2020, when Ms. Harris was nominated as the running mate of Joe Biden. Years ago, I was going through a supermarket checkout in Alabama when the cheerful cashier – a young Black woman – and I got into a conversation. Noticing that her name tag said CHANDRA, I asked her if she knew what it meant. She did not. When I told her it meant “moon” in my language, her face lit up with joy. “I can’t wait to get home to tell mum”, she said. Years later, when I heard of Kamala Harris the Senator, I wondered at her first name, being informed she was Black. Did her parents name her Kamala because they liked how it sounded? Or was this another case of “Chandra”? But I came to ...