Edjane dos Santos Nascimento is crowned Ebony Goddess of 2012
Edjane dos Santos Nascimento is crowned Ebony Goddess of 2012 by Ilê Aiyê On the night of Saturday, January 28th, the bloco afro known Ilê Aiyê crowned its queen […]
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Edjane dos Santos Nascimento is crowned Ebony Goddess of 2012
Edjane dos Santos Nascimento is crowned Ebony Goddess of 2012 by Ilê Aiyê On the night of Saturday, January 28th, the bloco afro known Ilê […]
Cook loses part of her vision after being attacked at a show in the historic Pelourinho area of Salvador, Bahia in Brazil’s northeast
Cookloses part of her vision after being attacked at a show in the Pelourinho Caseoccurred during the show of a popular Carnaval musical/social group […]
Cook loses part of her vision after being attacked at a show in the historic Pelourinho area of Salvador, Bahia in Brazil’s northeast
Cook loses part of her vision after being attacked at a show in the Pelourinho Case occurred during the show of a popular Carnaval […]
Elizete Cardoso
Elizete Cardoso (1920 – 1990) was a legendary singer and actress. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. Her father was a serenade singer who […]
Maria Augusta Arruda: the acheivement and image of the black Brazilian woman
Maria Augusta Arruda is a professor of pharmacology at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (State University of Rio de Janeiro). In October of […]
Devassa beer and the objectification of the black body
Rewinding the clock almost exactly one year, it was on December 15th, 2010, that I learned of the outrage caused by an advertisement of […]
Núbia
Núbia, a Carnaval dancer from one of Rio de Janeiro’s Samba schools
Núbia
Núbia, a Carnaval dancer from one of Rio de Janeiro’s Samba schools
A discussion of Black Women in Cinema
In the spring of 2010 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, three black Brazilian actresses came together to discuss the presence of black Brazilian […]
A discussion of Black Women in Cinema
In the spring of 2010 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, three black Brazilian actresses came together to discuss the presence of black Brazilian […]
Zaíra de Oliveira
Zaira de Oliveira (1891-1951) was a classically-trained soprano that studied at the Instituto Nacional de Música (National Institute of Music) which is currently called the […]
Zaíra de Oliveira
Zaira de Oliveira (1891-1951) was a classically-trained soprano that studied at the Instituto Nacional de Música (National Institute of Music) which is currently called the […]
Luislinda Valois
Luislinda Valois became the first black woman to become a judge in Brazil in 1984. Born in the northeastern state of Bahia, a state with […]
