Clique aqui para Português A ceremony was held on Saturday, December 12 at Pedra do Sal in the Port Region to celebrate ten years since the site was recognized for its historic importance as a […]
Clique aqui para Português On Sunday, November 22, Brazil’s first favela, the community of Morro da Providência, celebrated its 118th birthday. Though the exact day is unknown, it is popularly understood that Providência was born in November 1897. Following Brazil Black Awareness month events […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the second of a two-part series on Rio de Janeiro’s Port Zone. As was seen in the first article of this series, the Port Zone has been continuously shaped by urban projects that built […]
Clique aqui para Português Brazil’s colonial past has created a socio-political landscape in which issues of race and ethnicity remain problematic. Today, indigenous and black groups continue to resist the discriminatory social order left by the […]
Clique aqui para Português Historically defined as communities of fugitive slaves, quilombos represented areas of resistance and freedom for Afro-descendent Brazilians in the last country in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery. Under the 1988 […]