La presentadora española Lara Álvarez demostró su destreza en el baile moviéndose al ritmo de la punta, durante su visita a la comunidad Garifuna de Corozal, en La Ceiba, Honduras. En el video ...

Before J. King moved to New York 20 years ago, he was a legend in his home country of Honduras. His Punta rock band, Black Fever, had a hectic tour schedule, and their music–featuring the drum-based ...

When two Spanish slave ships wrecked on a reef off St. Vincent, an island in the eastern Caribbean, they spilled their human ...

WTOP celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month this Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, with stories spotlighting the contributions, culture and accomplishments of Hispanic communities across the D.C. region.

LA CEIBA. La comunidad garífuna inició hoy jueves las despedidas para el cantautor Aurelio Martínez, con tambores, el sonido del caracol y baile punta, tal y como él lo hubiera querido. Su legado ...

“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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Garifuna man drumming on boat - Belize culture While the Garifuna people only make up four percent of Belize’s population, the ...

Andy Palacio, an iconic figure and major force behind the worldwide awareness of Garifuna arts and culture, spoke to the North Shore News a few months before he died unexpectedly of a stroke in ...

In 1987, a compilation of Central American Garifuna music, or punta rock, was recorded in Andy Palacio's Sunrise Recording Studio and released to great acclaim. It featured the unique sound created by ...

Centuries before the Spanish, French and British attempted to invade and take over the Garifuna homeland; Yurumein, they fought against these colonial countries in defense of their nation state. In ...