Clique aqui para Português This article is the latest contribution to our award-winning reporting project, Rooting Anti-Racism in the Favelas: Deconstructing Social Narratives About Racism in Rio de Janeiro. It is also part of a series created in partnership […]
Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article about Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. The pile of furniture on the sidewalk started to form around 8:30am, when the Military Police arrived to […]
Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the office of Rio de Janeiro Governor Wilson Witzel on May 31, protesting the deaths of black and favela youth at the hands of the police. […]
Clique aqui para Português The Pereira da Silva favela sits between the Laranjeiras and Santa Teresa neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. Entering the community, there are small wooden signs with encouraging words–“Think about the things that make you […]
The top of Vila Pereira da Silva, a small community above Rio’s South Zone Laranjeiras neighborhood, holds one of the most creative art installations in the city: Project Morrinho. There aren’t many signs to guide visitors up […]