BROWN’S TOWN, Jamaica — Three and a half years ago, Sherman Harris gathered together a clutch of family and friends at his home on a hilltop here in rural Jamaica to watch his cousin step into ...

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.

Caribbean Rain is an intergenerational Jamaican musical group made up of Shelburne residents Judi Emanuel, Mikey Dyke and their kids, Lara Emanuel-Dyke and Michael Emanuel-Dyke II. The family band ...