Clique aqui para Português Launched in 2009 in the lead up to the 2016 Olympic Games, Porto Maravilha (Marvelous Port) is the largest urban redevelopment program in recent decades in Rio de Janeiro. Described as an […]
Clique aqui para Português On May 20, a calm day, students in the 14th Black Storytelling course start arriving at the House of Music—a comfortable space in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro—to the sounds of Alabê […]
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 On Saturday, March 3, the event ‘Favelas in Photo—Images for Rights‘ brought together residents of the Morro da Providência favela and photographers from the region to share their knowledge about the […]
Clique aqui para Português Recently, a new edition of the unique tour style, Rolé dos Favelados (Stroll of the Favelados), took place, this one questioning the Port Revitalization which happened before the 2016 Olympics. The idea behind […]