Clique aqui para Português Concluding Black Awareness week on November 26, the Cultural Association of the Camorim Quilombo (ACUCA) hosted its sixteenth traditional feijoada in honor of Afro-Brazil’s greatest resistance leaders Dandara and Zumbi dos […]
Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, March 11, community members joined together to commence a weekend of awareness and artivism in Camorim, an urban quilombo in Jacarepaguá, an area in the West Zone of Rio de […]
Clique aqui para Português From August 23 to 30, Rio de Janeiro hosted the 5th The Global Summit at the Earth Sciences Museum in Urca. The event sought to give voice to the large, diverse people and organizations in attendance–around 150–that […]
Clique aqui para Português Apartment blocks that will house journalists during the 2016 Olympic Games were built using “labor in conditions analogous to slavery,” and were erected on a slave burial ground on land claimed by […]
Clique aqui para Português Upon visiting the Quilombo do Camorim, it is evident that the community’s cultural history cannot be separated from the natural environment. Located in the neighborhood of Jacarepaguá in the West Zone of Rio […]