On Thursday July 21, the Anthropology Nucleus at Rio Federal University’s Institute for Philosophy and Social Sciences (UFRJ/IFCS) hosted an event entitled “The city in the time of cholera: the Olympic blow” to discuss urban […]
Clique aqui para Português Wednesday, July 20 marked the first day of the Black Lives Matter movement’s four-day visit to Rio de Janeiro, as part of Julho Negro or Black July. The first day of the visit […]
Clique aqui para Português In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, police do not need to claim that their victims had guns for them to justify extrajudicial killings of the mostly poor and Black. Jhonata […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday May 11, Heloisa Helena Costa Berto, an Afro-Brazilian Candomblé priestess, also known by her Candomblé name Luizinha of Nanã, whose home and spiritual center in Vila Autódromo were demolished to make way for […]
Clique aqui para Português From April 2 through May 21, the Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica (The Hélio Oiticica Municipal Art Center) is hosting the exhibition ComPosições Políticas: Outras Histórias do Rio de Janeiro (Political ComPositions: […]