Clique aqui para Português During the final week of August, the favela-based Straight Talk Institute hosted ‘Straight Talk for Climate’ week in Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest groups of favelas, in […]
Clique aqui para Português During the celebration of Brazil’s Folklore Day 2023, we learned more about how the residents of Parada de Lucas, in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, continue to breathe life into ‘bumba […]
Clique aqui para Português Favelão—The Voice of Favelados, a newspaper from the 1980s preserves the memory of political communication in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and their resistance against forced evictions. “Those who live in favelas […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is the latest contribution to our award-winning reporting project, Rooting Anti-Racism in the Favelas: Deconstructing Social Narratives About Racism in Rio de Janeiro. This story, told by writer and former domestic worker […]
Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. In Brazil, due to dramatically insufficient testing and delays in the release of test results, […]