While the Garifuna people only make up four percent of Belize’s population, the culture plays a huge role in the country’s history. When a ship of enslaved Africans sank, the survivors reached St.

This week Miller Outdoor Theatre brings to town Aurelio Martínez, a Honduran singer-songwriter-guitarist-percussionist-politician, who also serves as a cultural ambassador. He’s known around the world ...

Race, modernity, and tradition in a Garifuna community -- From Moreno to Negro: Garifuna and the Honduran nation, 1920s to 1960s -- Black indigenism: the making of ethnic politics and state ...

Aurelio Martínez, the celebrated Honduran folk musician who helped introduce the wider world to the music of the Garifuna people, died Monday, March 17, in a small passenger plane crash. He was 55.

Honduran folk musician Aurelio Martínez has died. The 55-year-old was a respected proponent of the Central American culture known as Garifuna. According to his spokesperson, Martinez and 11 other ...

On a recent afternoon in the village of Corozal on Honduras’ northern coast, men readied boats for fishing excursions, women sold coconut bread and boys played soccer on a beach lined with thatched ...