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 […]
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 […]
Note from BW of Brazil: This latest post touches on many of the topics that have been previously discussed here at BW of Brazil. Brazilian-styled […]
by Naira Sodré and Max Milliano Melo Yesterday, May 13, we remembered the date of the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888. But 125 years […]
Note from BW of Brazil: Today, May 13th, marks the 125th year of the abolition of slavery in Brazil which lasted about 350 years until 1888. […]
Two women accused the establishment in Bahia of having practiced racism against them on Saturday, April 6th. An employee of the establishment charged the customers […]
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 […]
November 20this said to be the day that the great Palmares quilombo (maroon society of runaway slaves) leader, Zumbi, was killed in 1695. In 1971 a group […]
Sign: For the end of the extermination of black youth More blacks die in Paraíba, according Map of Violence report by Camila Alves The number […]
Sign: 93% of youth killed in (state of ) Espírito Santo are black In our continuing coverage of the genocidal rates of homicide of black […]
While Black Women of Brazil has consistently reported the treatment of the Afro-Brazilian population in terms of representation, inequality and the racial aspect of homicides, the way Brazilian society perceives […]
Originally titled: “Os jovens negros morrem e as mulheres negras também morrem (Young black men are dying and black women are also dying)” by Luka* It’s been […]
Cotas (Quotas)* For the past decade, the implementation of a quota system to help more of Brazil’s non-whites get into public federal universities has been […]
Sueli Carneiro is the founder of Geledés, a black women’s organization which intertwines concerns of race and gender, and addresses the particular problems confronted by […]
Sueli Carneiro is the founder of Geledés, a black women’s organization which intertwines concerns of race and gender, and addresses the particular problems confronted by […]
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