In 2022, the World Cup starts on Black Consciousness Day and revives memory of the anti-racist struggle in Brazil
Note from BBT: How fitting it is that the 2022 World Cup is starting in the month of November. I say this because, for those […]
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Once excluded from Brazil’s soccer fields, black players are now regularly the majority on the country’s World Cup team
Note from BBT: A few months back, it hit me that the year we’re in, 2022, was a World Cup year. After another disappointing showing […]
Shame on Brazil! Black Brazilian players severely criticized with racist insults after defeat: World Cup Exposes Racist and Machismo Culture
Note from BW of Brazil: Sometimes it really seems that Brazilians have so little to celebrate on the world stage that every four years, they […]
Brazil’s fatherless national team: Six of eleven starters on World Cup squad grew up without their biological fathers
Note from BW of Brazil: For me, today’s piece is a very timely article. I won’t say coincidental because I believe that things often happen […]
The whitening process and transfer of ‘black money’ continues – 76% of Brazil’s World Cup stars marry white women: Is love really color-blind?
Note from BW of Brazil: The origin of how today’s article came out is quite intriguing. In 2013, I was contacted by a London-based Nigerian […]
It’s time to give a red card to sexual tourism: My flesh doesn’t belong to Carnival, nor the World Cup!
Note from BW of Brazil: The preparation, spectacle and eventual outcome of the 2014 World Cup will no doubt be discussed, studied, researched and debated […]
After World Cup loss, Argentine fans post racist comments about Brazilians in social networks
Note from BW of Brazil: The 2014 World Cup may be officially over, but the long time “war”/rivalry between Brazil and its South American neighbor, […]
At least one person was happy about Brazil’s World Cup disaster: the daughter of the black goalie who was blamed for the team’s 1950 defeat
Note from BW of Brazil: It’s shameful that people take something that is actually quite trivial in comparison to more important things in like […]
World Cup 2014: For Brazil, it’s all over but here are some of the (darker) faces that you didn’t see on TV
While the world witnessed Brazil’s worst and most humiliating defeat in a World Cup game, at home no less, various photos of dejected fans showed […]
World Cup 2014 – Brazil vs. Germany: No words!
World Cup 2014 – Brazil vs. Germany – Did you hear? Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words!
World Cup: Whiteness of Brazil’s fans and coaching staff is equaled by other teams
Note from BW of Brazil: Although the 2014 World Cup in Brazil is projected to be seen by more than 3.2 billion fans, those with […]
Brazil’s World Cup team and their women: Color doesn’t matter or fear of the dark?
Note from BW of Brazil: The origin of today’s post is actually from 2006, during the World Cup of that year that was held in […]
1970s throwback as Brazilian stars and players from Africa and Europe rock funkdified afros in World Cup
Note from BW of Brazil: In Brazil of today, there has been a rise in the self-acceptance of afro textured hair in a country in […]
World Cup: FIFA protects McDonald’s profits while restricting black women selling traditional food items
Note from BW of Brazil: With the celebrations, cheers and emotions in full swing with the start of the 2014 World Cup, we cannot lose […]
