Clique aqui para Português Originating among African-Americans in protest of the exclusion promoted by dominant economic and cultural systems, the hip hop movement easily won over Brazilian communities in the mid-1980s—ten years after taking off […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Flávia Medeiros published by Agência de Notícias das Favelas click here. On January 16, Leonardo Nascimento dos Santos, a 26-year-old DJ and electrician, was wrongfully […]
Clique aqui para Português Perhaps it was only fitting that an election of unparalleled turbulence—featuring an assassination attempt and a former president campaigning from prison—was nearly decided in the first round of voting with one […]
Clique aqui para Português For over two centuries, presiding political, academic, and cultural authorities have classified low-income urban neighborhoods as “slums.” The history of this term and the communities on which it has been imposed extends […]
Clique aqui para Português A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a community-managed nonprofit organization or association established to provide permanent affordable housing and build community assets in the territory that it owns and governs. CLTs […]