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 ...

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, ...

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- ...

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, ...

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 ...

Members of the Garifuna community are celebrating “a historic and long-awaited victory” after the Caribbean nation of St Vincent and the Grenadines announced the purchase of a privately owned island ...

Aurelio Martínez, the longtime ambassador of Garifuna music and former Honduran congressman, has died. He was 55. Martínez's official Facebook page confirmed his death and mourned the loss of the ...

The Garifuna are an ethnic minority of African-Amerindians living in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize. Their music, parranda, is rooted in the sacred practices of spirit-possession and ...

This Black History Month, learn about Garifuna musician Aurelio Martínez—his music, legacy, and lifelong defense of Garifuna culture and land.

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. The most iconic dish of ...