Seventeen-year-old Jaison McIntosh, a recent graduate of Westlake High School in Thornwood, New York and a second-generation ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The American Friends of Jamaica (AFJ) will hold a gala in Miami later this year to honour brothers Paul ...

In “The Annihilation of Fish,” age is the accumulation of scars. Aching memories, unhealed bruises and pent-up desires remain ...

The Oakland, California native was raised with her sister Maya by her mother Shyamala Gopalan, an Indian-American immigrant, ...

“At the University of California Berkeley [my mother] met my father, Donald Harris, who came from Jamaica to study economics. They fell in love in that most American way, while marching together ...

Watching Vice President-elect Kamala Harris address the nation Saturday night, Shirley Surgeon saw a daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants fulfilling her own parents’ greatest hopes.

With support primarily from the Black Caucus, Jamaican-American Congresswoman Yvette Clarke also led the initiative. Garvey received the pardon for his already-commuted sentence. Now, this move ...

Encompassing decades of Caribbean music styles, jazz and classic tunes from the Great American Songbook, Jamaican American pianist Monty Alexander’s “A Living History: Jamaica to Jazz ...

For the fourth straight Olympics, a Jamaican has swept gold in the track and field sprint ... track and field gold medals in the same Olympics and the first to do it since American Allyson Felix at ...

Meanwhile Jamaica’s professional recording industry was also starting to take shape. Recording studios, which had concentrated on American influenced R&B, began hiring out their facilities to ...