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Teofilo Colon Jr.
American journalist
Teofilo Colon Jr. (born 1974) is a Garifuna-American photographer, filmmaker, writer and journalist.[1] Colon has created an online archive of information about the Garifuna culture, an Afro-Caribbean population made up of formerly African, Island Caribs, Arawak 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 - with its biggest concentration outside that area in New York City, found most intensively in the Bronx.[2]