Clique aqui para Português Encrespando, an event celebrating Black Awareness Month, drew in large crowds last Friday November 28 in Engenho Novo, a community in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone. The event, held by Meninas […]
Clique aqui para Português When Germany celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, the date meant something different to the members of Favela em Foco (Favela in Focus). […]
For the original by Alessandro Lo-Bianco in Portuguese, published in O Globo, click here. An alley that stretches merely a meter wide in the Pavão-Pavãozinho favela set the stage for a controversy involving works of the Growth […]
Clique aqui para Português The stories of the homeless people of Rio de Janeiro are being chronicled by a Facebook page called RIO Invisível (Invisible Rio). Creators of the page Nelson Pinho and Yzadora Monteiro, […]
Clique aqui para Português Black protagonism in cinema is being promoted across Rio de Janeiro in November, in honor of Brazil’s Black Awareness Month. The film festival Circuito Cinegrada is a project run by CRUA – Coletivo Criativo da […]