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Joyce Fernandes, popularly known as Preta Rara, (Black Rare) a one-time house maid, is now a rising Rap and entertainment star in Brazil who is sparking...
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A border conflict between Guyana and Venezuela has gotten worse with the recent detention of two Guyanese fishing vessels and their crew--and now CARICOM and its...
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Madelana Gordiano reportedly lived as a slave in Brazil for more than 38 years before being recently rescued.
A 46-year-old Black Brazilian woman was rescued from a...
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Black Brazilians are embraced in a struggle of resistance against institutional systemic state racism, like Black people in America and Europe.
A dozen people are...
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Brazilian police recommended Friday that prosecutors charge six people over the killing of a Black man, Joao Alberto Silveira Freitas, beaten by security guards at a...
The shooting of two young Black girls – who had between them enjoyed fewer than 11 years of life – has sparked outrage in Brazil and intensified the debate over police violence and structural...
Brazilians outraged by the death of a Black man after being beaten by supermarket security guards have been protesting in major cities across the country, chanting a phrase familiar to Americans...
Protests have lasted for three days outside the Carrefour Brasil supermarket in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre after the security guards beat to death a Black man at the store.
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Black Brazilian women are running for political office at unprecedented high rates in this year's election in opposition to Brazil's right-wing...
In a bicameral letter sent to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) led two...
This is the place where most of the Africans were brought. That's probably the first thing you should know about Bahia.
They were brought from the western coast of Africa to toil in the...
The Black Lives Matter movement can be felt throughout Latin America but nowhere more so in Brazil.
In a country where nearly 57 percent of the population (~119 million people) consider...
Black Brazilian Congresswoman Benedita da Silva welcomed a new electoral ruling aimed at fighting racism in Brazil's electoral process.
Black political candidates in Brazil must get a fair...
The Black Coalition for Rights in Brazil will denounce President Jair Bolsonaro before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes of responsibility, which today aggravate the policy of...
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