Long-time Gleaner vendor Kenneth Chambers (second right) and United States Ambassador Brenda LaGrange Johnson, take pictures with cut-out images of John McCain (left) and President-elect Barack Obama at the US Embassy's election night party on Tuesday. Chambers has been selling on Old Hope Road, the spot where the embassy is now located, before it was built. He was a specially invited guest at the event. - Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer

History has been made in the United States as Barack Obama was on Tuesday elected to be the first African-American president. Something Extra has highlights of celebratory parties that took place here in Jamaica and also in the United States.

Melky Jean, sister of Haitian singer Wyclef Jean, celebrating Barack Obama's victory at the Grass Lounge in downtown Miami on Tuesday night. - photos by Janet Silvera

At 11 p.m. on Tuesday, when Barack Obama was declared the first African-American president-elect of the United States, the Grass Lounge in downtown Miami erupted and Diaspora President Marlon Hill (right) and his friends were in the thick of the mix.

Long before Barack Obama was declared president-elect of the United States, former Third World drummer, Willie Stewart, was drumming away in his Pembroke Pines, Florida, home celebrating the victory he was smelling.

Doesn't seem to matter who Tiffany Thompson (left) and Barbara Oliver were rooting for; they were having fun at the election night party at the US Embassy in St Andrew. - Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer