The Garifuna (or Garínagu) are a people born from the union of West and Central Africans who escaped slavery and the Indigenous Caribs of the island of St. Vincent — a free, mixed nation that resisted European colonization, was exiled across the Caribbean in...

The short version: The Roberto Clemente legacy belongs to the Afro-Puerto Rican right fielder who collected exactly 3,000 hits, won a World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and died on December 31, 1972, when his relief plane bound for earthquake-stricken Nicaragua crashed into the...