Social networks facilitate the organization of 2015 Black Women’s March and discussion about racism
Note from BW of Brazil: In December of 2012, November of 2013, as well as last month, we updated you on the announcement and organization […]
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Race and representation: The ‘great white savior complex’ continues in popular Globo TV novela
Note from BW of Brazil: What is the role of television in society? Should it simply present facts and society as it really is or […]
In Porto Alegre’s “Slut Walk”, group of black women make an intervention to protest against racism and violence
Note from BW of Brazil: For those who don’t know, to be a black woman in Brazil is to experience daily assaults on one’s very […]
History of abolition in Brazil ignores its true heroes; 126 years later Brazilian society has yet to attain equality
Note from BW of Brazil: Last Tuesday, May 13th, was the commemoration of 126 years of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. Since the […]
The Frente Negra Brasileira: In the 1930s, government and intelligence agencies extinguished the first large scale Afro-Brazilian rights organization
Note from BW of Brazil: When many people around the world think of the black struggle for equality it is often immediately associated with figures such […]
25 curious facts about slavery in Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: Whenever discussing the experiences of African descendants in the Americas, the topic will inevitably turn to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade […]
25 curious facts about slavery in Brazil
25 curious facts about slavery in Brazil Note from BW of Brazil: Whenever discussing the experiences of African descendants in the Americas, the topic will inevitably […]
Brazil’s top TV network makes a mockery of the Month of Black Consciousness in a satirical skit
Note from BW of Brazil: As has been noted on a few previous posts this month, the month of November is celebrated as the Month […]
Journalist writes that Cuban doctors arriving in Brazil came on “slave planes.”
Note from BW of Brazil: The controversy surrounding the arrival of Cuban and other foreign doctors to Brazil to address the doctor shortage triggered various […]
What happened to the black Brazilian woman on May 14, 1888?: The day after the abolition of slavery
Black women on May 14th, 1888 It was a sunny Sunday, when Princess Isabel signed the Lei Áurea (Golden Law) which abolished Slavery in Brazil. […]
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 […]
125 years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, children and teens feel that there is still something to abolish: prejudice!
Note from BW of Brazil: Although many don’t realize it, during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, Brazil imported more African slaves than any other Western nation. […]
“That’s prejudice, (it’s) just because we’re black! When will we be respected in this country?” says a black woman accused of theft in a store; subsequent search finds nothing
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 […]
Revisiting the black Brazilian middle class of 1999
With recent reports about the surge of Brazil’s black middle class and its buying power in the past decade, we thought it would be interesting […]
