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With the popularization of online games in Brazil, representation has become increasingly pressing and so has racism. Illustration: Momo Pixels
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Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas: 2021 [EDITORIAL]

By RioOnWatch Editorial • April 30, 2022

Clique aqui para Português This is the latest contribution to our media watchdog series on the Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio’s favelas, part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing conversation on the media narrative and media portrayal surrounding favelas. Introduction to the […]

The use of masks becomes obligatory in the 2020 ENEM
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The 2021 Brazilian College Entrance Exam Exposes Inequality and Setbacks in Education [OPINION]

By Humberto Salustriano • Translation by Pilar Boyero • February 17, 2021

Clique aqui para Português The administration of Brazil’s standard college entrance examination, the National High School Exam (ENEM), in January and February 2021, is the most explicit manifestation of what the dominant groups in Brazil […]

Grada in one of her art works a performance in an installations on racism. Photo by: Zé de Paiva.
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Interdisciplinary Artist Grada Kilomba Speaks of the Urgency of Disobedience at Rio’s FLUP

By Natalia Galicza • December 6, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of coverage of Brazilian Black Awareness Month, celebrated every November around Black Consciousness Day on November 20.  Grada Kilomba, the Portuguese interdisciplinary artist and writer whose work probes legacies of […]

Lélia Gonzalez in an image with no date, according to Ana Maria Felippe - Lélia's friend - this was one the author's favorite pictures.
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Rio’s Literary Festival of the Peripheries Celebrates Brazilian Black Feminist Pioneers [VIDEO]

By Pilar Boyero • November 23, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This article is published as part of Brazilian Black Awareness Month, celebrated every November around Black Consciousness Day on November 20. It is part of our reporting partnership with The Rio Times. For the article […]

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Seven Brazilian Intellectuals to Help Us Understand Racism in Brazil

By O Globo • Translation by Cormac Whitney Low • July 8, 2020

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese published in O Globo click here.  Protests against racism and police violence have broken out in the United States and Brazil, in the middle of […]

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