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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

“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 ...

Donald Harris was born in Jamaica and immigrated to the U.S. after he got into the University of California, Berkeley, Kamala Harris wrote in her autobiography, "The Truths We Hold: An American ...

The couple married, then welcomed Kamala in 1964, followed by her sister Maya two years later. They brought the young sisters to visit family in Jamaica, where Donald retraced with them the steps ...

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 ...