Preto À Porter: New variety show series is 100% written, produced, directed and hosted by black people
Note from BBT: How you view the changes coming out of Brazil these days in terms of racial representation will greatly depend on how you […]
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Banco Afro (Afro Bank) goes from one to thirty thousand clients after racist declaration of fintech company; Brazil now has five black-owned financial initiatives
Note from BBT: There are a number of exciting things happening within the Afro-Brazilian community in terms of education, finances and entrepreneurship. Although the overall […]
Ten Black Brazilians included on 2020 MIPAD | Black Brazil Today
Note from BBT: Black Brazilians have been regularly featured on the Most Influential People of African Descent list for the past few years and 2020 […]
Drik Barbosa Sews The Strength of Black Women With a Mix of Rap
Drik Barbosa Sews The Strength of Black Women With a Mix of Rap Note from BW of Brazil: Brazilian music has been yet another path […]
Alan Soares: Founder of the Black Money Movement in Brazil
Alan Soares: Founder of the Black Money Movement in Brazil Note from BW of Brazil: The term “black money” has popped up on this blog […]
The “New Black Globalization” – Connections of diasporas and African countries; recent visit by king of Yorubas to Brazil encourages calls for black nationalism
Note from BW of Brazil: The recent visit by King Oni of Ifé, leader of the Yoruba people in Nigeria, is being hailed as an […]
Racism and self-esteem: Afro-Brazilians share experiences and challenges of living in a society that is a constant assault on one’s blackness
Note from BW of Brazil: The title of today’s article sums up a great part of what this blog is all about. The development of […]
Black militants and middle/upper class whites clash in demonstration -Whites support police action leading to murder of 10-year old black child, blacks protest
Note from BW of Brazil: Surely some people must sometimes wonder ‘what the hell is going on Brazil?’ But the things that are coming out […]
The rejection of kinky/curly hair: In video, black children make fun of black hair while Neymar spends R$7,000 per month to straighten and care for his
Note from BW of Brazil: A few weeks ago, I happened to come across a video circulating around social networks. In the clip entitled ‘Menina […]
Researcher associates black female samba singers with the struggles of black women’s movements
Note from BW of Brazil: The history of the Brazil’s national music, samba, is in many ways very representative of the history of representation and […]
100 black Brazilians make silent protest at screening of “12 Years a Slave” in upper crust mall in Rio on International Day Against Racial Discrimination
Note from BW of Brazil: On March 21st, which was the International Day Against Racial Discrimination, a group of friends in Rio de Janeiro […]
Why 300,000 Brazilians took to the streets; but where are the black protesters?
Note from BW of Brazil: In the past week, protests, huge crowds and police violence coming out of various cities around Brazil have grabbed headlines […]
Black Women in the First Person: Dandara Correia discusses the construction of her identity as a black woman and the struggle for racial equality
Note from BW of Brazil: In this essay, included in the collection Mulheres Negras na Primeira Pessoa (Black Women in the First Person), activist Dandara Batista […]
After much promise and hype of 90% black cast, Subúrbia TV series descends into familiar clichés and stereotypes about black Brazilians
Back in September when I first read the news that Brazil’s biggest TV network, Globo, was producing a new TV series that featured a 90% Afro-Brazilian […]
