“Garifunas are spread across the world,” said López, a resident of the Honduran village of Tornabe. In the past few decades, Garifunas emigrated to U.S. cities including Houston, where about ...

Meantime drug dealers are killing off village leaders in an ongoing turf war. So the Garifunas have found a home here in the Bronx. "And so that’s what we want to let them know. That we are here ...

A wave of cultural pride coursed through the grand reopening of the Casa Yurumein cultural center near Crotona Park in the Bronx, with more than 100 people of Afro-Latino descent gathering to ...

Mimi Eligio kept looking over her shoulder. Surrounded by some 2,500 of her fellow Garifunas – a mixture of Central American people descendant from runaway African slaves and Caribbean Indians ...

When it comes to being counted in the census, the Garifunas, who are part African, part Caribbean and part Central American, say they don’t fit into any box. Advertisement 1:08 10:45 1:41 ...