Teofilo Colon, Jr.

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Mario Ellington
July 26, 2016
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Aurelio Martinez
July 26, 2016

Teofilo Colon, Jr.

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Teofilo Colon, Jr. (born in 1974) is a GarifunaAmerican photographer, filmmaker, writer and journalist. Colon has created an online archive of information (www.BeingGarifuna.com)  about the Garifuna culture, an Afro-Caribbean population made up of formerly African, Caribs Indian, Arawak Indian people exiled by the British from Saint Vincent Island to Roatán, an island off the coast of Honduras, who eventually emigrated to the Caribbean coasts of the Central American countries of Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua and beyond – with its biggest concentration outside that area in New York City, found most intensively in the Bronx.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teofilo_Colon,_Jr.

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