Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Judith Burrows / Getty Images) Aurelio Martínez, the longtime ambassador of Garifuna music and former Honduran congressman, has ...

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From 2006 to 2010, singer-songwriter Aurelio Martinez served in the Honduran congress, where he championed the concerns of the Garifuna — a marginalized community descended from African slaves and ...

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A collective that is preserving the sounds and culture of Afro-Indigenous people from Belize and Honduras will join the Brandeis community for a concert and residency this fall. Garifuna culture was ...

The Honduran, real name Gustavo Castillo, calls the Latin Grammy nod for his Garifuna song ‘a dream come true’ When the Honduran musician Gustavo Castillo, stage name Tavo Man, was nominated for a ...

“Everybody wants to be cool, especially young people,” says Andy Palacio, 45, the moving force behind the Garifuna Collective, a band that’s attracting international attention to the endangered, ...

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 ...

Aurelio Martinez grew up in Plaplaya, a small coastal village in eastern Honduras. Because of its isolation, it has stayed a stronghold for the customs and culture of the Garifuna people. Aurelio, who ...

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, ...

Aurelio Martínez, the longtime ambassador of Garifuna music and former Honduran congressman, has died. He was 55. Martínez’s official Facebook page confirmed his death and mourned the loss of the ...