Clique aqui para Português On October 23 agents from the city government carried out the unannounced demolition of five homes in Vila Autódromo, next door to the 2016 Olympic Park. 60 year-old Dona Mariza do […]
Clique aqui para Português Five youths were machine-gunned dead inside a car by Military Police in the Complexo da Pedreira favela in Costa Barros in the North Zone of Rio. Wilton Esteves Domingos Júnior, aged 20, […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Thursday, November 19, Columbia University’s Studio-X Rio hosted Quilombo of the Present / Quilombo of the Future, an event exploring the significance of quilombos today. Held on the eve of Brazil’s […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the second in a three-part series on the Imagens do Povo photography collective. “I think the greatest lesson of a documentarian is to be a link of sympathy between yourself, the […]
Clique aqui para Português Today, November 20, is Brazil’s Black Awareness Day, a day to celebrate Black Brazilian history and resistance to oppression. While May 13 marks the adoption of the ‘Golden Law‘ that abolished slavery in 1888 with the […]