Common heritage and language, rather than geographical boundaries, unite the Garifuna people of Central America. They are the descendants of Africans who escaped slavery in the seventeenth century and intermarried with Caribs living in the eastern...

GARIFUNA RELIGION. The Garifuna are an ethnic group numbering roughly 300,000 with communities in some 40 villages dotting the Caribbean coasts of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Belize. Their traditional ancestor-focused religion presents a...

Garífuna refers to both the people and language of the Garínagu. In their own language, Garífuna is the singular and Garinagu is the plural form. The Garífuna live along the Caribbean Coast in Belize, Guatemala (Livingston), Nicaragua and Honduras...

Albert BowkerBERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Albert Bowker, a former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and the City University of New York, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer, the colleges announced. He was 88.Bowker was living at a retirement community near Stanford University when he...