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 ...

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- ...

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 ...

We the Garifuna people are among the 400 million people on this earth who speak one of the 6,000 indigenous languages that exist. Most of us are struggling to preserve our languages that we have been ...

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 ...

It's estimated that as many as 800 languages are spoken in New York City. There are efforts to make sure one of them does not die. NY1's Erin Clarke filed the following report. Every Saturday, Milton ...

The rhythm of the beating of handmade drums and singing in a hybrid language that blends French, English, Spanish and Arawak Indian can often be heard in Houston's Fifth Ward. Almost daily, Honduran ...

Garifuna culture was forged when a ship carrying captive Africans wrecked off the coast of St. Vincent in the 1600's. The survivors swam ashore, mixed with the island's native Arawak population, and ...

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 ...

Last Tuesday evening, I went to the University of Guyana Vice Chancellor’s Conversation (on the Law and Society). It was the first event hosted by the VC to which I lent my presence. There were other ...