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This Memory Will Not Be Erased: Six Years Without Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes

By Cynthia Rachel Pereira Lima • Translation by Nathan Bergrin • March 21, 2024

Clique aqui para Português On March 14, 2018, six years ago, a barbaric crime took the lives of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes. A date that will never be […]

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2023 Retrospective of Best International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas (10th Edition)

By RioOnWatch Editorial • Translation by Staff • January 31, 2024

Clique aqui para Português This is the 10th edition of our media watchdog series Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas, part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing conversation on the media narrative and portrayal of favelas. A Significant Improvement in […]

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Rio de Janeiro City Council Recognizes 160 Grassroots Anti-racist Media Producers on Historic Evening at the Brazilian Press Association

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Vasti Cruz • December 21, 2023

Clique aqui para Português On a historic evening during Brazilian Black Awareness Month, on November 27, Rio de Janeiro’s City Council, through the Special Commission to Combat Racism, chaired by Councilmember Mônica Cunha, delivered motions […]

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Exhibition ‘IGNITE: Where You Seek Action, I Am Spirit’ in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone Addresses Creative Liberty of Black, Favela, and Peripheral Artists

By Felipe Migliani • Translation by Sana Khan • November 13, 2023

Clique aqui para Português From September 23 to October 28, 2023, the exhibition IGNITE: Where You Seek Action, I am Spirit was held in Vila da Penha, a neighborhood in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, […]

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RIP ‘Subnormal Agglomerations,’ Part 3: Peripheral Epistemology in the Design of the Census and Presentation of a New Nomenclature

By Julio Santos Filho • Translation by Nathan Bergrin • November 10, 2023

Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a series of three about how Brazil’s census bureau, IBGE, held an unprecedented week-long workshop to debate how to change the term “subnormal agglomeration” used […]

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