As the US prepares to head to the polls, the Guardian's Caribbean correspondent, Natricia Duncan, finds out what people in St Ann's parish, Jamaica, where Kamala Harris visited as a child, think of the historic prospect of a US president of Jamaican origin.
On Saturday, Commonwealth members appointed Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey as the new secretary general. Botchwey has consistently supported movements for reparations for transatlantic slavery.
Charles Ignatius Sancho was previously thought to be the first Black voter in Britain, but a blackamoor pub landlord named John London cast a vote 25 years earlier.
Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino has received the inaugural award for artistic freedom from the Munch Museum in Oslo and is revealing a 9-metre-tall mural in New York.
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