Clique aqui para Português On June 3, Rio de Janeiro’s Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) launched a Mini-Course for Favela Solar Energy Ambassadors in the Babilônia favela, in the city’s South Zone. The gathering brought together community […]
Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article in a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on water issues and the […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Wednesday, May 24, a “shock order operation” [aggressive program to crack down on public disorder] by the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Public Order Secretariat (SEOP) demolished 25 wooden and brick […]
Clique aqui para Português Maria Conga was a quilombola leader who led the fight against slavery in the city of Magé in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region in the early 19th century. She is […]
Clique aqui para Português As they settled Brazil, Portuguese colonizers destroyed Black people’s lives in many ways, among them cultural destruction, stripping away beliefs, values, customs, and rhythms. When they didn’t kill, they were whitening […]