Brazilian state still sees communities of African origin religions as folklore
Note from BW of Brazil: In a Western world that continues to place Christian religious values and morals at the cores of their societies, those […]
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20 years of the Candelária Church Massacre that claimed the lives of eight and shocked the world
BW of Brazil: Today we look back in remembrance of a senseless massacre that shocked the world 20 years old and forever etched the image […]
May 13, 2013, 125 years since the abolition of slavery, but today 8 of 10 people working in conditions analogous to slavery are of African descent
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. […]
Man assaulted by neo-Nazis in Niterói (metro Rio area); researcher shows that neo-Nazism has grown dramatically in Brazil
Note from BW of Brazil: There has been yet another report of a Neo-Nazi attack in Brazil. Although Brazil has for many years promoted itself […]
Document points to a late 1980s extreme right plan to exterminate poor populations
Note from BW of Brazil: Over the past year and a half this blog has featured many articles on what appears to be an act […]
Pastor who believes "Africans are descended from an ancestral curse" and "AIDs is a gay cancer" is chosen president of Commission on Human Rights and Minorities
Deputy/pastor Marco Feliciano elected president of Commission on Human Rights and Minorities After protests from members of the PT (Partido dos Trabalhores or Workers’ Party) and […]
Spike Lee will spend Carnaval in Salvador, Bahia; director there filming more scenes for his documentary Go, Brazil, Go!
President of the bloco afro Olodum, João Jorge (left) and director Spike Lee Continuing our coverage on filmmaker Spike Lee’s upcoming documentary Go Brazil Go, our friends over at the Correio Nagô website […]
Psychologist and psychotherapist Maria Lúcia da Silva discusses the effects of racism and whiteness on mental health, identity and self-image of Afro-Brazilians
Psychologist and psychotherapist Maria Lúcia da Silva discusses the psychic conflicts that involve racism and discusses how prejudice is reflected in the lives of blacks in Brazil […]
The battle over Affirmative Action in Brazil
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 […]
Afro-Brazilian man brutally beaten by two white men in suburb of São Paulo: incident caught on video
Ivan Romano speaks to TV Bandeirantes after being assaulted ‘They said they would kill me’, says black man assaulted by white youths in Embu, SP […]
Afro-Brazilian man brutally beaten by two white men in suburb of São Paulo: incident caught on video
Ivan Romano speaks to TV Bandeirantes after being assaulted ‘They said they would kill me’, says black man assaulted by white youths in Embu, SP […]
Brazil: Death squads and the genocide of Afro-Brazilians
By Pablo Reis and BW of Brazil Yesterday, the Huffington Post posted an article entitled “Brazil Police May Have Executed 30 During Strike” highlighting the […]
Thalma Freitas and Afro-Brazilians as "suspects of the standard color" in Brazil
In another example of the way in which brown skin is automatically associated with crime in Brazil, well-known actress/singer Thalma Freitas was stopped, picked up […]
