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Live-Streaming for Human Rights: Witness Holds Training for Favela Community Activists

By Edmund Ruge • January 31, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On Friday, January 26, representatives from the human rights organization Witness came together with Rio community activists to hold a live-stream training for favela residents and community journalists. Led by Witness’ Rio […]

#CommunityMedia

Broken Connection Part 1: When There Is No Internet Access

By data_labe, Escola de Jornalismo Énois • Translation by Desirée Poets • January 22, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a four-part series on Internet access in favelas and urban peripheries in Brazil. For the entire original article in Portuguese by Escola de Jornalismo Énois and data_labe published […]

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Anitta’s Global Hit ‘Vai Malandra’ Music Video In Context: Favela Funk and Passinho

By Lucy McMahon • January 17, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The December sun beats down on a vividly painted school playground, where several teenagers are going through the fast steps of a passinho phrase. They pause to teach each other, to […]

Photo by Ellis Rua
#MonitoringCrivella

Hundreds Protest, Many Mourn Closure of Iconic Casa do Jongo Cultural Center [IMAGES]

By Ellis Rua • January 11, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On January 9, 2018, hundreds gathered in Cinelândia in downtown Rio de Janeiro to protest the closing of the Casa do Jongo da Serrinha. The cultural center is located in Madureira in Rio’s […]

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Passes, Fails, and Dropouts at a Public School in Manguinhos [INTERVIEW]

By Edilano Cavalcante • Translation by Cheyne Bull • January 10, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The end and beginning of a new year, besides being a time for festivities, is also the moment in which many mothers and fathers in Brazil pay the most attention to […]

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