Clique aqui para Português On Saturday night, June 30, Vila Autódromo residents held their annual arraiá, a traditional June cultural festival. The community played host to around forty attendees from neighborhoods near and far. Throughout the evening, […]
Clique aqui para Português June 19, breakout author Geovani Martins spoke at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) about the launch of his critically acclaimed first book, O Sol na Cabeça (The […]
Clique aqui para Português It’s 3pm on a cloudy Saturday and, as more people file through the entrance of Instituto Raízes em Movimento (Roots in Movement Institute) in Complexo do Alemão, what initially seemed like a […]
Clique aqui para Português The Complexo da Maré favelas mourn the death of 14-year-old Marcos Vinicius da Silva this week, as a violent police operation Wednesday morning sent residents, including teachers and students, ducking for […]
Clique aqui para Português “The favela is not the problem. The favela is the city. The favela is the solution.” These were Rio City Councilwoman Marielle Franco’s opening remarks as she appeared on an episode of […]