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 ...

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 Garifuna are an Afro-indigenous community, who are descendants of Africans and Indigenous Kalinagos/Arawak people in St ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you didn’t know, Livingston is where Garifuna culture still exists in Guatemala, in Central America. Garifuna settlements exist ...

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 ...

LIVINGSTON, Guatemala (Reuters) - Descendants of African slaves who fled to Guatemala two centuries ago honored their ancestors on Thursday in a wild celebration of a culture threatened by mass ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...