The UN has a category for endangered human cultures, called "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity." At the top of that list are the people known as the Garifuna: coastal ...

Biodiverse and celebrated snorkel and scuba sites draw adventurers to the Belize Barrier Reef, one of Central America’s conservation success stories. But there’s another impressive restoration ...

The Garifuna language belongs to the Arawakan group of languages and has survived centuries of discrimination and linguistic domination. It is rich in tales (úraga) originally recited during wakes or ...

When West Africans on their way to the New World’s slave markets escaped in 1635, they intermarried with Caribbean islanders to create a new and distinct culture. The boats came at dawn along the ...

The Bronx is the latest stop in a long journey, for the Garifunas. A resilient people, finding strength in unity. Their quest to find home, started not by choice, but by force. Thousands of years ago, ...

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 ...

The Garifuna Collective is a globally acclaimed musical group from the Central American nation of Belize that first introduced global audiences to the unique Cultural fusion of traditional Garifuna ...

What makes you you? This question can be answered in a lot of ways, but science tells us there’s one foolproof answer — genes. Explore the building blocks of life and celebrate the 60th anniversary of ...