Clique aqui para Português Launched in 2016, the Samba Abstrato (Abstract Samba) Facebook page was created to document the appropriation and whitening of Brazilian carnival samba schools, as well as to confront the invasion of […]
Clique aqui para Português Rio de Janeiro’s 2025 Carnival is here, celebrating a people increasingly proud of themselves and their history. Of the 12 samba schools in the Special Group, only two—Mocidade and Vila Isabel—will […]
Clique aqui para Português In Aldeia Maracanã (Maracanã Village), an indigenous village located next to the iconic soccer stadium of the same name, numerous efforts have been underway since 2006 to resist the pressures of […]
Clique aqui para Português On January 30, the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Federation of Favelas (FAF-RIO), in partnership with Instituto 12, Ọ̀yọ́ Cultural, and Cetbras, held the first edition of the FAF-RIO seminar entitled “Dialogues […]
Clique aqui para Português On January 8, 2025, residents of the Santa Luzia favela, located between the neighborhoods of Vargem Pequena and Vargem Grande in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone, were blindsided by a ten-day […]