COLUMBIA, S.C. _ At a downtown restaurant _ amid the noise of silverware clinking, servers taking orders and diners chatting _ Denae Pearson stared intently at a television screen where a defining moment of the first round of Democratic presidential primary debates was unfolding.
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris of California was calling out former Vice President Joe Biden for his opposition to integrating Delaware schools through the practice of busing. Biden was a U.S. senator from that state at that time, the 1970s.
A black woman who benefited from busing in California as a young girl, Harris put Biden on the defensive: "That little girl was me," she said in a line now emblazoned on her campaign T-shirts along with her childhood photo.
