About 1,400 miles from Washington, D.C., sits the island nation of Jamaica. The Caribbean country is home to about 2.8 million people and a diaspora that spans the globe. Vice President Kamala ...

“Donald Harris’s policy work was absolutely foundational to the Jamaican economy,” said Hutchinson, an economics professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. Since Kamala Harris’s rise ...

In a 2018 essay written by Donald entitled Reflections of a Jamaican Father, he noted that he's always pushed for Kamala and her sister, Maya, to uphold a connection to their Jamaican roots as ...

The latter has implied that Kamala has attempted to capitalize on her Jamaican heritage by repping it to entice Black voters. When CNN’s Dana Bash asked about Trump’s attacks, Kamala responded ...

“It's like tears of joy.” Kamala Harris' cousin, Sherman Harris, looks through her memoir at his home in Brown's Town, Jamaica. Zoë Todd/CNN Next week, they will gather again before his ...

Kamala Harris was asked on the radio during the 2020 presidential election about whether she smoked pot when she was young. She joked, “Half my family’s from Jamaica, are you kidding me?” ...

Had Kamala Harris been young and unformed, she might have reacted to such comments by deploying stories of the family’s ancestry in Jamaica, a blood-drenched epicenter of the trade in human beings.

Although Kamala Harris' father has stated that his family lineage traced back to an Irish slave owner in Jamaica named Hamilton Brown, confirming this link has not been possible due to a lack of ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ birth certificate has been shared in posts online as proof that the Democratic presidential candidate is not of Asian American or Black Jamaican heritage.

As Vice President Kamala Harris wraps up her campaign for president, her life, family, and career is firmly in the spotlight. In January 2021, when Harris was sworn in as the Vice President of the ...