Clique aqui para Português On the night of November 30, community leaders from across Rio converged at the City Council to speak out against evictions. The evening’s panel marked the launch of Rio’s first “Parliamentary […]
Clique aqui para Português Despite Rio de Janeiro’s original and oldest favela just celebrating its 120th anniversary last month, it was not until fifty years later, in 1947, that the city’s favelas began to be included […]
Clique aqui para Português A powerful new exhibit is launching in New York this December: Black Brazilian Women: Presence and Power. Organized by a SUNY-New Paltz master’s student, Sandra Coleman, the exhibit tells stories of 49 black Brazilian […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a four-part series on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. “First of all, this plaza is different because this plaza is our plaza,” declares André Constantine, a powerful […]
Clique aqui para Português On the evening of Monday, November 13, the Rio de Janeiro City Council building hosted a Black Awareness Month ‘rolezinho’ tour of the building and a panel discussion on “The Right to the […]