Perólas Negras project encourages children to appreciate black beauty
Note from BW of Brazil: Growing up black in Brazil can be challenging. Let’s re-word that. Growing in Brazil with saliently visible African features […]
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Black female bakery cashier arrested over a dispute with a customer involving a $1.36 cup of coffee!
Note from BW of Brazil: Wait, WHAT?!?!? What the hell is next? Forcing people to work in chains again?!!? In two previous posts of […]
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 […]
Race, beauty, representation and black invisibility: how two recent beauty contests represent Brazil’s racial ideology
Note from BW of Brazil: Two beauty contests, two different states, and two different histories serve as good examples of Brazil’s historical racial ideology. In […]
“What Brazil really wants to be is blonde,” says researcher of racial inequality
Photo: Top, left to to right: Rafaella, sister of soccer star Neymar, actress Aparecida Petrowky, soccer star Neymar and singer Juliana Diniz. Bottom, left to right: […]
Day of Black Consciousness 2012: photos of festivities in cities throughout Brazil
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 […]
March to denounce the extermination of black youth: in the state of Espírito Santo homicide of black youth is 364% higher than that of white youth
Sign: 93% of youth killed in (state of ) Espírito Santo are black In our continuing coverage of the genocidal rates of homicide of black […]
Actress/lawyer Dandara Albuquerque: "Black beauty should be recognized and appreciated, but this will only happen when blacks themselves are proud of it"
The daughter of a white father and black mother, Dandara Albuquerque is 23 and lives in the famed Copacabana region of Rio de Janeiro. This […]
