The Garifuna Collective has returned to Belize after a short residency at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

When two Spanish slave ships wrecked on a reef off St. Vincent, an island in the eastern Caribbean, they spilled their human ...

If you didn’t know, Livingston is where Garifuna culture still exists in Guatemala, in Central America. Garifuna settlements exist in Honduras, Belize and Nicaragua on the Caribbean coast. The little- ...

The Garifuna people are a diasporic community shaped by resistance and survival. They are a mixture African and Amerindian descendants, originating from Saint Vincent in the Caribbean, where they ...

South Florida is rich in diversity and there is a plethora of culture to explore, but there is one community working to increase their visibility and preserve their history, as part of the fabric of ...

A wave of cultural pride coursed through the grand reopening of the Casa Yurumein cultural center near Crotona Park in the Bronx, with more than 100 people of Afro-Latino descent gathering to ...

The language can mostly be traced through this group of people’s travel pathway. Rakeem Nuñez-Roches is of Garifuna descent. He was the first Garifuna Belize American to win a Super Bowl. We don’t ...

The Garifuna Collective performs this weekend at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell, in the Belize Pavilion and on the Jazz & Heritage Stage. They sing with joy and passion.

A crowd favorite at the 2013 Folklife Festival was the Garifuna drumming and dance group. No matter the time of day, pouring rain or blazing heat, they got the crowd on their feet, shaking to ...

TRIUNFO DE LA CRUZ, Honduras -- The gaunt teenager walked barefoot for days along narrow, muddy paths and caught rides from an occasional passing car to reach the nearest city. But the trip was worth ...