Depicting Jesus: Mary and Joseph as Black Men and Women
Depicting Jesus: Mary and Joseph as Black Men and Women Mangueira and Grande Rio stand out with black Jesus and defense of Candomblé By Marques […]
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Baco Exu do Blues: Brazilian Music Paves the way for Stage Rapper
Baco Exu do Blues: Brazilian Music Paves the way for Stage Rapper Note from BW of Brazil: The more one is able to de-program him […]
Orisha Statue is a Target of Vandalism in Salvador | Bahia
Orisha Statue is a Target of Vandalism in Salvador | Bahia Candomblé divinity statue is a target of vandalism in the Dique do Tororó The […]
Woman Attacks Statue of African Deity of The Sea Iemanjá
Woman Attacks Statue of African Deity of The Sea Iemanjá Note from BW of Brazil: In many ways, art and statues can be very influential in […]
8 Suspects of Plundering of Afro Brazilian religious temples are arrested
8 Suspects of Plundering of Afro Brazilian religious temples are arrested Note from BW of Brazil: This is more than a little disturbing. Attacks and demonization […]
The demolition of a candomblé temple in Brasília and religious freedom
The demolition of a candomblé temple in Brasília and religious freedom Note from BW of Brazil: This story is actually from early last month, and […]
Cida Reis Filmmaker & Black Women: Talk about blackness on the Screen
Note from BW of Brazil: Brazilian Cinema is yet another of the seemingly endless areas of Brazilian society where one will note a glaring invisibility […]
Web Series “Pretas” All About a black woman boxer in the Amazon
Web Series “Pretas” All About a black woman boxer in the Amazon Note: The more I ask the question, the more deafening the silence on […]
In the state of Bahia, cases of intolerance against Afro-Brazilian religion have increased 2,250%: latest is attack on monument symbolizing black resistance to slavery
Note from BW of Brazil: Assaults of sacred temples and leaders of Afro-Brazilian religions is yet another aspect of Brazil’s rejection of its African heritage. […]
Candomblé, a religion of resistance: A maximum expression of black culture that has been Afro-Brazil’s weapon of struggle and survival
“I’m a Candomblé militant. I do a black theater that is guided matricially by candomblé. I am not connected to the black movement just because […]
Please don’t teach that black stuff!: For the second time in three months, parents of school children reject a teacher presenting black cultural material in class
Note from BW of Brazil: When you analyze the everyday stories that come out of Brazil, it’s really not hard to understand why many children […]
In historic visit of King Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Babatunde Ogunwusi of Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Bahia is declared the Yoruba Capital of the Americas
Note from BW of Brazil: Brazil has a huge debt to Africa and its people. Not only is it estimated that nearly 90% of Brazilians […]
Brazilian couple (Kenia Maria and Érico Brás) is among the most influential blacks in the world for the second time
Note from BW of Brazil: For the second year in a row, a Brazilian couple is on the MIPAD list of Most Influential People of African Descent. […]
Exalting itself the “blackest religion of Brazil”, but with no space for the discussion of black issues, are black identity and Neo-Pentecostal currents incompatible?
Note from BW of Brazil: Yet another trap for Africans and African descendants worldwide. White supremacy has so many weapons that when it doesn’t succeed […]
