By official count, 102,000 residents animate the streets of Rocinha, Brazil’s most populous single favela community. 10,000 mototaxis buzz up and down the uneven landscape. But what called my attention this past Friday was the […]
As the closing of Rio’s giant Jardim Gramacho landfill is presented at Rio+20 as an example of substituting an untreated open facility for a modern waste treatment plant, the community that worked there as the […]
Clique aqui para Português “If this house falls,… it will take everything else (on the hillside) down with it. There will be a total disaster, and the Prefeitura (City) knows it,” says Irenaldo Honrário da […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese published in Belezas Negras click here. Clothing brands, designers, and producers have once again excluded black beauty from the runways, as Fashion Rio launches its new […]
Last Thursday afternoon, minutes before the meeting of Cantagalo/Pavão-Pavãozinho residents and Sub-prosecutor general at the Court of Human Rights Leonardo Chaves regarding violence and abuses by UPP police officers, a loud dispute broke out on […]