February is Black History Month. Throughout this month The Royal Gazette will feature people, events, places and institutions that have contributed to the shaping of African history. In 1635, two ...

For decades, educator and civil advocate Sebastian Cayetano has been a champion for representation of the Garifuna people of Belize, founding the National Garifuna Council in 1980, the same year that ...

The event was designed to bring together people from the Garífuna's countries of origin—Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and St Vincent and the Grenadines. The celebration included traditional ...

During National Hispanic Heritage Month and on the day when many of us now honor indigenous people instead of Christopher Columbus, too often the story of Afro-Indigenous people is forgotten or ...

It was the brilliant, sadly brief international career of Andy Palacio that most recently brought attention to the music and remarkable history of the Garifuna people, the so-called black Caribs.

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 ...

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 ...

Meet the young artists and musicians who are making sure Garifuna sounds and culture are reaching the rest of the world ...