Brazilians held a lot of hope for democracy after the military dictatorship. But the past 40 years have proved that democracy ...

Today, youth delegates representing the HBCU Green Fund's Sustainable Africa Network took the global stage at the United Nations Climate Conference in Bonn with a powerful message: climate justice ...

During the 1970s, a new generation of Black activists mobilized to replace narratives of Princess Isabel as a liberator with another figure: Zumbi. They faced considerable censorship and repression.

Nascimento’s path was molded by her participation in the Brazilian Movimento Negro (the Black Movement) of the 1970s and ’80s.

The Brazilian beauty just became the first Black woman to be crowned Miss Brazil in 30 years, and is the second Black woman to hold the crown in the country’s history. Deise Nunes won back in 1986.

This project connects organizations and artists dedicated to Black History in the Americas, the history of photography, and cultural preservation. Since the 1970s, Black movements in Brazil have ...

It’s bossa nova and samba, but so much more — funky, soulful and esoteric. Listen to these songs chosen by Joyce Moreno, Marcos Valle, Amaro Freitas and more lovers of Brazilian rhythms.

The holiday marks the anniversary of the death of Zumbi, a key figure in Black resistance to slavery in Brazil and a leader of the Palmares quilombo, an independent community of people who escaped ...

In the early 70s, historians discovered that Zumbi's death date was November 20, 1695. In 1978, the Unified Black Movement (MNU) chose Zumbi as a symbol of the struggle and resistance of enslaved ...

46 years after the MNU – Unified Black Movement elected Zumbi as a symbol of struggle and resistance of the Afro-Brazilian people, 15 years after the veto by Mayor Silvio Barros and 13 years after the ...

That law was overturned in 2017 when a judge ruled that its enactment had been motivated by “racial animus.” Tucson Unified introduced "culturally relevant" courses for the 2014-15 school year.

Adriana Odara Martins, a resident of Morro da Providência, member of the feminist group Articulation of Brazilian Women, and a coordinator for the Unified Black Movement, says: “We are here in ...