While the Garifuna people only make up four percent of Belize’s population, the culture plays a huge role in the country’s history. When a ship of enslaved Africans sank, the survivors reached St.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A boat forced ashore by stormy Caribbean seas off the Central America coast would change Andy Palacio’s life — and provide world music lovers with an unlikely new hero. Palacio, a 46-year-old native ...

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, ...

Centuries before the Spanish, French and British attempted to invade and take over the Garifuna homeland; Yurumein, they fought against these colonial countries in defense of their nation state. In ...

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.

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