What Kamala Harris’ Law School Years Reveal About Her Politics

The signs in downtown San Francisco that day, outside of the University of California Hastings College of the Law, might as well have been plucked from today’s racial justice protests. “Rise Above Racism,” “Should This Still Be Happening?” and “What Is Next?” they read. It was February 15, 1989, and the campus had been pulsing with tension for a week, after students discovered that a bulletin board decorated by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) to commemorate Black History Month had been vandalized with a racist marking: a grotesque caricature...