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#CommunityMedia

No Recess in Times of Covid: Teachers Evaluate Resuming In-person Classes While Covid Worsens in Rio’s Favelas

By Edilana Damasceno • Translation by Clau Guimarães • April 8, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original article in Portuguese, written by Edilana Nascimento and published by Data_Labe click here. Children having their literacy […]

#CoronavirusWatch

The Fight Against Coronavirus in Brazil’s Indigenous Northern Villages #Brazils Part 2—North

By Ariel Bentes • Translation by Mikayla Ribeiro • April 1, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a five-part series, published in Portuguese by favela-based online magazine Favela em Pauta and titled “Brazils: Stories of the Periphery in the Pandemic.” Each essay […]

#CoronavirusWatch

Grassroots Movements Across Brazil Launch Campaign to Guarantee Food to 223,000 Families Impacted by Covid-19

By Angela Boldrini • Translation by Clau Guimarães • March 24, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original article in Portuguese, written by Angela Boldrini and published in Folha de São Paulo, click here. On […]

Photo: Cainan Xavier
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Homelessness in Times of Covid: ‘We Are Faces and Stories, But We Are Invisible’ #Brazils Part 1—South

By Ariel Freitas • Translation by Sarah Jacobs • March 8, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a five-part series, published in Portuguese by favela-based online magazine Favela em Pauta and titled “Brazils: Stories of the Periphery in the Pandemic.” Each essay […]

Church of Our Lady of Penha_ the beginning of a Quilombo that, later, would become Vila Cruzeiro. Photo by VejaRio.
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Vila Cruzeiro’s Legacy for Black Culture

By William Reis • Translation by Ikrom Alajoulin • November 19, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This article is published as part of Brazilian Black Awareness Month, celebrated every November around Black Consciousness Day on November 20. For the original article by William Reis, executive coordinator of […]

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