Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garifuna man drumming on boat - Belize culture While the Garifuna people only make up four percent of Belize’s population, the ...

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 collective that is preserving the sounds and culture of Afro-Indigenous people from Belize and Honduras will join the Brandeis community for a concert and residency this fall. Garifuna culture was ...

Growing up in Belize, James Lovell heard the Garifuna language from his parents and his grandparents; he understood it but he didn't speak it. He spoke the language of the streets, Belizean Creole. He ...

Belizean food roots in Mexican, Caribbean and Central American influences. At Garifuna Flava, which is a favorite among Belizean ex-pats, the home-cooking reflects an entire culture. "Garifuna is a ...

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 ...

During his childhood in Belize, bassist Al Ovando grew up surrounded by music. His father played guitar and he and his brothers had a family band. Even as a child, Ovando took the reins, setting up ...

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 ...

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, ...