Posts tagged race
United, Favelas Would form Brazil’s 5th Largest State
Feb 23rd
For original article in Portuguese in Carta Capital click here.
Brazil currently has 12 million people living in favelas. They are responsible for generating R$38.6 billion per year in commercial activity, which is equivalent, for example, to the GDP of Bolivia. If they were a state, they would form the fifth most populous Brazilian state; Rio de Janeiro’s favelas alone would comprise, together, the ninth largest city in the country.
The figures, released on Wednesday February 20th, are the result of DataFavela, a study conducted by the Data Popular institute in partnership with Celso Athayde, former head of the Central Única de Favelas More >
Fashion Rio Still Excluding Black Models
May 25th
Article published in Portuguese in Belezas Negras here.
Clothing brands, designers, and producers have once again excluded black beauty from the runways, as Fashion Rio launches its new collections for Summer 2013. Young black professionals who deserve the chance to be part of the cast of the runway shows and fashion week events are kept out of this professional space. This despite an agreement made with the agency in charge of hiring, which promised to set aside a percentage of jobs for black models. The clothing companies did not honor the agreement.
Educafro denounced the discrimination with yet another protest:
“Close to 20 people staged a More >
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Rio’s Port, Slavery, and a Couple Determined Not to Forget
Oct 10th
In 1996, Merced Guimarães and her husband Petrucio were renovating their home on Rua Pedro Ernesto in Gamboa, Rio’s Port district. Soon after work began on what was to be a considerable repair project, workers digging in the earth underneath the house started to uncover numerous human bones. At first, Merced was frightened, and understandably so. “Our first thought was that there had been some major crime here,” she said.
But what Merced and Petrucio had unknowingly discovered was actually the Cemitério dos Pretos Novos (Cemetery of the New Blacks), a relic of the port district’s days as a hub of More >
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Thank God
May 11th
Reporting by: Glenda Fernandes, Saulo Araújo, Hosana Souza, Josilaine Costa, Samuel Lima, Henrique Ribeiro and Amanda Souza.
One of the healthiest aspects of Brazil’s young democracy is its widespread religious freedom, which means most of us are at a loss to understand the bloody religious wars happening elsewhere in the world. But those who live in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro know that one of the achievements of the new State community policing (UPP) presence in some favelas is the ability to worship without the risk of having one’s house broken into by drug traffickers, as happened many times in Morro More >
