Happy Birthday, Lélia Gonzalez
Happy Birthday, Lélia Gonzalez Today, February 1st, Idedicate this post to what would have been the 77th birthday of Lélia Gonzalez, an important militant of […]
Afro-Brazilian women
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 […]
Actress Neusa Borges recovering from stroke
Actress suffered a stroke After suffering a stroke on Monday (January 23), Neusa Borges is recovering in Barra D’Or Hospital in the Barra da Tijuca area […]
Good hair, bad hair? Black Brazilian women and girls also struggle with this hegemonic ideology
“I have hard/nappy hair and I’m beautiful” Good hair, yes sir! Brazil is experiencing a peak of racism where prejudice against curly/kinky hair harms […]
Karen and Karina Ferreira: Representing black Brazilian beauty in the world of modeling, Part 1
Karen Maria Ferreira Flores and Karina Eugênia Ferreira Flores are identical twins, 15 years old, born in the capital city of Brasília, models, students of the […]
The Black Women of Distinction Awards honors unique accomplishments of black women of the city of Florianópolis
Santa Catarina is a small state located in the southern portion of Brazil. It is one of three states located in this region that, along with […]
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 […]
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Source: Black Women of Brazil
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Source: Black Women of Brazil
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 […]
Taís Araújo, a beautiful woman of many firsts!
Taís Araújo is an award-winning model, television host and actress of film and television. She is perhaps the most visible black woman in the Brazilian […]
Carolina de Jesus
Carolina Maria de Jesus (1915-1977) was a favelada (slum dweller) from the the city of São Paulo that gained fame in the 1960s after the […]
Laudelina Campos Mello: Union leader and militant against racial discrimination
Born in the city of Poços de Caldas, in the state of Minas Gerais, in 1904, Mello worked as a domestic and became the first […]
