In Los Angeles, the Garifuna are working hard to preserve their culture and help others learn about their little-known history in Latin America. Welcome to GAMOLA.

On Garifuna Settlement Day — observed by Belize and Nicaragua on Nov. 19, Guatemala on Nov. 26, and Honduras on April 12 — four Garifuna women reflect on their upbringing and how they preserve ...

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 ...

About half the Garifuna population, known as Black Caribs to the British, perished in the journey, and some 3,000 ended up on the small, inhospitable island of Roatán off the coast of Honduras.

With 100,000 who call themselves Garifuna in LA, diners will find a link to this indigenous cuisine with influences from Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America ...

The Garifuna People Of Honduras Are Making Some Very Sick Beats : Alt.Latino A workshop on the eastern coast of Honduras is keeping Garifuna culture alive and accessible for young musicians.

“The Garifuna are descendants of an intermixture of marooned African slaves and native Amerinidians (Carib and Arawakan), emerging as a unique racial, cultural, and linguistic group in the mid ...

The Garifuna people are descendants of enslaved Africans, and also Arawak and Caribbean Indigenous communities who have historically been displaced from their ancestral lands.

At least 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered last year — the highest number since the group Global Witness began gathering data eight years ago. Some 40% of those killed were ...

I t’s been nearly 50 days since five Garífuna leaders were abducted in their homes in Triunfo de la Cruz, on Honduras’s Caribbean coast. On July 18 at 5:30 am, men wearing police uniforms ...

Honduran ambassador of Garifuna music and politician died at 55 in a plane crash. Martínez's official Facebook page confirmed his death and mourned the loss of the musician.