Clique aqui para Português On February 24, 2016, the City of Rio demolished Heloisa Helena Costa Berto’s home, one of the last houses to be destroyed in Vila Autódromo next to the Olympic Park. Over […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Tuesday, the Coletivo Nuvem Negra (Black Cloud Collective) of Rio’s Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) and the Institute of International Relations at PUC-Rio hosted a roundtable debate on whiteness and the […]
Clique aqui para Português The New Blacks Institute (Instituto Pretos Novos, or IPN), a museum in Rio’s Port Region hosting the largest slave cemetery in the Americas and one of the main sites preserving the city’s legacy as […]
Clique aqui para Português On Thursday May 4, demonstrators gathered outside the Rio de Janeiro State Justice Tribunal to protest the conviction of Rafael Braga, who on April 20 was sentenced to 11 years in […]
Clique aqui para Português In the United States and Brazil, two countries with deep histories of racial injustice, disparities in educational opportunities between racial minorities and white populations manifest as early as preschool. The chances […]