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 ...

In celebrating June as Caribbean-American Heritage Month, the Coast Guard spotlighted the Garífuna, a unique Afro-Caribbean indigenous group whose seafaring descendants trace their early heritage from ...

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, ...

Celebrities die every day and pop culture quickly moves on. But for the Garifuna people, descendants of shipwrecked slaves whose culture extends through Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, ...

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 ...

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, a singer and guitarist whose critically acclaimed music championed the vanishing language and culture of the Garifuna people of his native Belize and made him a cultural icon in the ...

The Garifuna Collective was co-founded and led by Andy Palacio (1960–2008), a musician dedicated to preserving the unique Garifuna language and culture. Today this group of accomplished, ...