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- ...

Garifunaidad has gained mainstream attention in the last several years as social media discourse on this vibrant, Afro-Indigenous community has made its way across timelines. With the language and ...

Teofilo Colon Jr’s family emigrated from Honduras — but the flag the Brooklyn blogger flies isn’t blue and white. It’s the yellow, black and white banner of the Garifuna people. “My family insisted, ...

Latinidad is an ever-expanding concept, but it has not often made space for the Garifuna people who come from various regions of Central America. In Los Angeles, the Garifuna are working hard to ...

The rhythm of the beating of handmade drums and singing in a hybrid language that blends French, English, Spanish and Arawak Indian can often be heard in Houston's Fifth Ward. Almost daily, Honduran ...

Andy Palacio, an iconic figure and major force behind the worldwide awareness of Garifuna arts and culture, spoke to the North Shore News a few months before he died unexpectedly of a stroke in ...

“Everybody wants to be cool, especially young people,” says Andy Palacio, 45, the moving force behind the Garifuna Collective, a band that’s attracting international attention to the endangered, ...

In 2007, the Belize-based musician Andy Palacio created a band of local Garifuna musicians, called The Garifuna Collective, releasing the ground-breaking album Watina. It became an immediate ...