Making her first high-profile foray into the Southern black church, California Sen. Kamala Harris told a Georgia congregation founded by former freed slaves that the United States remains wracked by racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination that flout the nation's core values. But the rising Democratic Party star added that Americans aren't as split as "forces of hate and division" suggest. A 52-year-old, first-term senator widely mentioned as a potential national candidate, Harris did not mention President Donald Trump in her remarks. Introducing Harris, church member and personal friend of the senator Eugene Duffy called the occasion "a day of projection and reflection." A former local prosecutor and California attorney general who opposes the death penalty, Harris says she advocates a criminal justice system that honors "the concept of redemption."

Source: Fox News October 01, 2017 18:41 UTC