Recent posts

• Ordinances for funding of black cultural projects struck down by judge; Minister of Culture calls decision “racist”. Ordinances valued at US$4.5 million
• The racist face of Brazil’s miscegenation
• Carmen Costa: The daughter of sharecroppers, the woman with the powerful voice recorded many hits and sang at Carnegie Hall
• Race, beauty, representation and black invisibility: how two recent beauty contests represent Brazil’s racial ideology
• New film, Raça (race), presents blacks as the central theme in the fight for racial equality and makes history in Brazilian cinema
• While all three refer to persons of African descent, what is the difference between the terms preto, pardo and negro?
• Girls of funk group, aged 13 to 20, targeted by Public Ministry due to the sexual nature of their performances
• Trajectory of the documentary “Raça” features three black personalities in the struggle for racial equality
• Black professionals reveal their experiences with prejudice in a new book
• Racial inequalities persist after 125 years of the abolition of slavery
• May 13, 2013, 125 years since the abolition of slavery, but today 8 of 10 people working in conditions analogous to slavery are of African descent
• “What Brazil really wants to be is blonde,” says researcher of racial inequality
• Aline Mattos – Photo gallery 2
• Aline Mattos: Photo gallery
• Research shows that the way Brazilians see the color of celebrities reveals “racial” criteria in Brazil
• 125 years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, children and teens feel that there is still something to abolish: prejudice!
• Minister of Policies to Promote Racial Equality says it’s necessary to change the image of black women in the media
• Overcoming experiences with racism and sexism, five powerful black women reveal the keys to success
• Model Priscila Medeiros – Photo Gallery 3
• Model Priscila Medeiros – Photo Gallery 2