Clique aqui para Português “Maybe I won’t live to see that change, but I am fighting so that this legacy will be around for my son” — Osmar Paiva Camelo, one week prior to his assassination Osmar Paiva […]
Clique aqui para Português Vale Encantado, a favela in the heart of the Tijuca forest, part of the largest urban forest system in the world in the middle of the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, was […]
The mothers of victims of violence in favelas called for justice in a powerful protest in Manguinhos Saturday September 13. Holding up photos of the young men killed by the Military Police, around 50 protesters marched […]
Clique aqui para Português Nearly 100 residents crowded onto a third floor veranda in Vila União de Curicica on Wednesday night to discuss their plan to resist eviction in the face of the TransOlímpica highway […]
Clique aqui para Português Brazil’s colonial past has created a socio-political landscape in which issues of race and ethnicity remain problematic. Today, indigenous and black groups continue to resist the discriminatory social order left by the […]