Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, January 11, 2023, Anielle Franco, born and raised in the Maré Complex of favelas in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, was welcomed as Brazil’s first Minister of Racial Equality. […]
Clique aqui para Português Cross-party alliance seeks to combat the underrepresentation of the black population in Brazil’s legislative branch, advocating an anti-racist agenda. There’s an African proverb that is well known on this side of […]
Clique aqui para Português On July 27, 2022, on what would have been her 43rd birthday, a statue of Councilwoman Marielle Franco sculpted by artist Edgar Duvivier was inaugurated at the Buraco do Lume. The […]
Clique aqui para Português “To be a black woman is to resist and survive at every moment.” The phrase was said by Marielle Franco, a woman who would change the course of Brazilian political history, […]
Clique aqui para Português One week ago, after two years of pandemic restrictions, the International Women’s Day march once again took Brazil’s streets on March 8. There were protests in at least 40 cities. In […]