Clique aqui para Português When Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, allegedly killed nine African Americans at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston on Wednesday, it took hours for national media to cover the story. The silence […]
For the original in Portuguese, by Alan Miranda, published in Observatório de Favelas, click here. By the age of 16 in our society one can have a multitude of jobs, desires, possibilities and perspectives on life. At […]
Clique aqui para Português Residents of Complexo do Alemão, community leaders, researchers, government officials, members of civil society and journalists came together last Thursday, April 9 to discuss recent conflicts in Complexo do Alemão and debate […]
Last Monday evening February 23, 800 people once again took to the streets to protest police violence in Complexo da Maré in a demonstration called Protest for Life in Complexo da Maré. The event began at 7 […]
Clique aqui para Português Resident account on the state of violence in the community of Complexo do Alemão. Today I woke up reflecting on what is going on in my favela. I started to realize that […]