CULTURE SHARE: Garifuna Heritage Reception @ Mayor Adams
CULTURE SHARE: Garifuna Heritage Reception @ Mayor Adams
We had a wonderful time at the Garifuna Heritage Reception by Mayor Adams
Each year since 2008, the Garifuna in New York has been observed from March 11 to April 12 as Garifuna-American Heritage Month, in observance of the 226 Anniversary of the Forcible Transfer of the Garifuna People by the British from their Ancestral Homeland St. Vincent “Yurumein”, (presently known as St. Vincent and the Grenadines) to Central America in 1797….
Gibson said New York City is home to the largest Garifuna population outside of Central America, with an estimated population of 250,000, with over half the population calling the Bronx home, which makes it the largest Garifuna community outside of Central America.
Transcript of Mayor’s speech below
photography by Mega