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Marielle Lives On! In Maricá, the Little Owls Project Offers Nighttime Support for Single Mothers and Fathers

By Carla Regina • Translation by Staff • March 14, 2024

Clique aqui para Português March 14, 2024—This Women’s History Month, on the sixth anniversary of Marielle Franco’s political femicide, this article explores Marielle’s parliamentary legacy through a policy implemented by the municipality of Maricá. The initiative, […]

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Brussels Community Land Trust Guarantees Affordable Housing For Vulnerable Communities, Including Immigrants and Refugees, and in One of Europe’s Most Expensive Cities

By Felipe Litsek, Lara Masetto • Translation by Ujwala Murthy • March 13, 2024

Clique aqui para Português This is the latest in a series of articles about Community Land Trust (CLT) experiences around the world. We selected a few cases based on their potential to inspire others. These […]

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Art, Resistance and Ancestral Struggle at Carnival, Part 1: Exploring Rio’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Through the Traditional Bate-Bola Clowns of the Peripheries

By Tatiana Lima • Translation by Staff • February 11, 2024

Clique aqui para Português This is the first in a series of three articles about carnival traditions in Rio’s favelas and peripheries, respectively: the Bate-Bola clowns, an indelible tradition in the North and West Zones, […]

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After Three Years of Review, Rio de Janeiro Approves its New Master Plan: Explore Two Innovations with Impacts for the Favelas

By Felipe Litsek • Translation by Nathan Bergrin • December 28, 2023

Clique aqui para Português The city of Rio de Janeiro officially has a new Master Plan. In an extraordinary session held on December 11, 2023, councilors approved Bill Complement No. 44-A/2021, instituting the new Master […]

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Rio’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival Hosts 13th Edition and Celebrates Ancestral Black and Indigenous Orality in ‘Little Africa’

By Vinícius Ribeiro • Translation by Kay Alvito • November 30, 2023

Clique aqui para Português For Brazilian Black Awareness Month, this article covered Rio de Janeiro’s Urban Peripheries Literary Festival (FLUP) on pioneering Afro-Brazilian authors—the Black elders of Brazilian literature: Machado de Assis, Lima Barreto, and […]

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