Clique aqui para Português In two months time, the eyes of the world will be firmly fixed on Rio de Janeiro, and the municipal government has spent the last seven years and billions of reais getting the […]
May brought intensified mainstream media coverage to Rio’s favelas focused on the recent uptick in violence across the city, but significant social policy changes and ongoing struggles for housing and education rights were important stories […]
Clique aqui para Português Little Africa, Pequena África in Portuguese, is an area in the Port Region of Rio de Janeiro that has historically been home to a strong Afro-Brazilian community. The area became known as Little Africa following […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Raquel Rolnik in Portuguese published by Yahoo! News click here. Last month the process to impeach President Dilma Rousseff was confirmed by the Senate and, on the same day, ministers from […]
On Saturday, May 28, residents of Vidigal favela in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone gathered to bid farewell to local artist Wilson Alexandre. After ten years of transforming a 600 square meter overgrown abandoned site into a vibrant […]