Beauty and Magazine Covers in Brazil: The Overwhelming Dictatorship of Whiteness
Sometimes it amazes me when white people look at events or certain media that is aimed at and features specific segments of a population and […]
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Beauty and Magazine Covers in Brazil: The Overwhelming Dictatorship of Whiteness
Sometimes it amazes me when white people look at events or certain media that is aimed at and features specific segments of a population and […]
December 25: The day of the African orixá Oxalá
Note from BBT: I know that millions of people around the world are celebrating or celebrated today as Christmas, but as I thought about what […]
Afro Fashion Day: The 6th edition of the “Blackest Runway in Brazil” shines spotlight on black models and black designers
Note from BBT: All I can say is that I wish I could have been there. Well, maybe not this year as this whole Covid-19 […]
2017 winner Monalysa Alcântara says people didn’t accept a black Miss Brazil: “I suffered a lot’’
Note from BBT: Sixty-seven years, three black Miss Brasil winners. All of the other winners of the beauty contest have been white, or something close […]
Singer Margareth Menezes: “Brazil’s music industry is a ‘privilege machine’
Singer Margareth Menezes: “Brazil’s music industry is a ‘privilege machine’ for white artists Note from BBT: It’s funny, but the arts and athletics are supposedly […]
Singer Offered a gig but only if She Straightened her hair | Black Brazil
Singer Offered a gig but only if She Straightened her hair Note from BW of Brazil: What is Brazil without its anti-black, racist sentiments? I […]
Loving A Black Man can Hurt “To Get Ahead in Life” | Black Brazil
Loving A Black Man can Hurt “To Get Ahead in Life” Note from BW of Brazil: When I first started digging into the issue that […]
Black People as a form of Militancy: Photographer sees his portraits
Black People as a form of Militancy: Photographer sees his portraits Note from BW of Brazil: When black people have access to certain things, they make […]
TV host Silvio Santos accused of racism after overruling audience choice
TV host Silvio Santos accused of racism after overruling audience choice Note from BW of Brazil: The origins of today’s piece actually started in a […]
Top 10 richest singers of Brazil: how White artists are the most popular
“Top 10 richest singers of Brazil: Recent reports show how white artists are the most popular and best paid in Brazil’s music industry In a […]
Black Female characters in children’s cultural productions is still important
Black Female characters in children’s cultural productions is still important Note from BW of Brazil: The recent dust-up over the announcement that a young, black […]
Theater piece “Esperança na Revolta” (Hope in the Revolt), an all-black production, takes stories of resistance to the stage in Rio de Janeiro
Note from BW of Brazil: While it may still be true that the “revolution won’t be televised”, you CAN get a nice glimpse of it […]
As the Brazilian media continues to marginalize their talents, Afro-Brazilian actors take to stages in Rio to bring the black voice and experience to the public
As the Brazilian media continues to marginalize their talents, Afro-Brazilian actors take to stages in Rio to bring the black voice and experience to the […]
