The Harris and Alsobrooks friendship may matter now more than ever

In 2010, after besting four challengers in a crowded Democratic primary race for Prince George’s County state’s attorney, Angela Alsobrooks received her first phone call from a rising political star in California. It was Kamala Harris, then a prosecutor in San Francisco who went on that year to win the state attorney general’s race and would later clinch a U.S. Senate seat — the second Black woman and first South Asian American to ever do so.