Clique aqui para Português The Rio Olympics ended exactly a year ago today. What now? Community journalist Gizele Martins describes life in Maré today as “dictatorship in the midst of democracy.” Militarization has always been […]
Clique aqui para Português “Reading ought to be an act of love,” said Paulo Freire. For residents of Manguinhos, a cluster of favelas in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, the mere existence of a space […]
Clique aqui para Português “We always wish for the transformation of our world, but the world will never be transformed if we don’t start in the minds of youth.” These are the words that drive Paulo Cesar Avelino, a pastor […]
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 For the original article in Portuguese published by Agência de Notícias das Favelas click here. A project that began four years ago at a school in Baixa do Sapateiro, in the Maré […]