Clique aqui para Português For much of the 20th century, between the shores of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon and Rio de Janeiro’s Leblon neighborhood, stood one of the largest favelas in the city’s upscale […]
Clique aqui para Português This article begins a series on the 2026 Brazilian elections, focusing on the perspectives of Greater Rio’s favelas. Misinformation is a silent epidemic—yet its consequences are immediate and tangible. In Brazilian […]
Clique aqui para Português On March 14, 2018, six years ago, a barbaric crime took the lives of Rio de Janeiro Councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes. A date that will never be […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first in a series of articles on water justice in the favelas resulting from the course “Climate Justice in Community Journalism: From Pitching to Writing.” The course, conducted […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a series of three about how Brazil’s census bureau, IBGE, held an unprecedented week-long workshop to debate how to change the term “subnormal agglomeration” used […]