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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...