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- ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musician Rhodel “Rhodee” Castillo smiles when he is asked how he explains who he is and where he’s from to his neighbors on the South Side. Although he looks like them, his native Garifuna language is ...

Andy Palacio is a singer-songwriter from Belize who, with his Garifuna Collective, is crusading to save the threatened music and culture of a tribal people along the Atlantic coast of Central America.

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 ...

THERE’S a buoyant, lighthearted tropical quality to Andy Palacio’s music. Echoes of reggae, salsa, samba and calypso simmer beneath the surface of its infectious percussion. But the heart of the music ...

For centuries, home has been a transient notion for the ethnic community known as the Garifuna. Pushed around the Caribbean region by various colonial powers, many sought safe haven in New York ...

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 ...