Category Archives: Globo
Aline Mattos: Photo gallery
Aline Mattos is a former participant on the popular Globo TV network reality show Big Brother Brazil 13. She’s already been featured here at BW of Brazil a few times … Continue reading
Actress Sheron Menezes visits Angola and participates in TV channel’s international programming event; is this the network’s way of hiding its lack of diversity?
by Antonio Lucio Brazilians uninformed about what happens in Angola, where I returned last week and like a parrot repeating in exhaustion that Brazil in the Homeland of National Angolan … Continue reading
Race relations in Brazil: a mixture of openness and acceptance, discrimination and exclusion
Associated Press/Felipe Dana – This photo taken Feb. 25, 2013, shows Nubia de Lima, 29, posing for a photo in her Rio de Janeiro apartment in Brazil. De Lima, a … Continue reading
Aline Prado, Globo TVs symbol of Carnaval in a photo session: “I’m used to the nudity”
Aline Prado: Carnaval’s Globeleza girl (more photos here and here) Thunder and lightning announced that the photo shoot precedes a storm in downtown Rio. It doesn’t take many clicks … Continue reading
Lovely actress Erika Januza, protagonist of TV series Suburbia, shows off the color of summer
The actress, who brought life to the character Conceição in the Globo TV Suburbia series poses in a photo shoot in blue, one of the best bets for Brazil’s hottest season of … Continue reading
Aline Mattos, formerly of the popular reality show Big Brother Brasil, does her first sensual photo shoot
À lá Beyoncé: ex-BBB Aline does her first sensual photo shoot Aline, formerly of the popular reality show Big Brother Brasil, makes her first sensual photo shoot, but avoids showing … Continue reading
Inspired by Beyoncé, actress Roberta Rodrigues straightens her hair and goes blonde; says guys are crazy about her new look
Actress Roberta Rodrigues who first became famous in her role as Berenice in the 2002 hit film Cidade de Deus (City of God) has decided to go against the grain in the … Continue reading
The representation of black women in Brazil’s novelas (soap operas)
Aparecida Petrowki (left) and Camila Pitanga Taís Araújo (left) and Maria Ceiça By Rosa Estrada I have just under three decades of existence, and, because of this, I don’t have … Continue reading
Aline, only black woman of top-rated reality show, speaks on racism and identity: "I’m black; I don’t have any problem with people calling me this" – Family on her dedication and struggle to succeed
Cast member Aline on Big Brother Brasil 13 Reality shows are often programs that go way overboard in taking advantage of shock value in order to bring in better TV … Continue reading
Patrícia Dejesus discusses her transition from the modeling world to becoming an actress
In an interview with Quem (magazine), the actress talks about her role in Avenida Brasil and “veiled prejudice” when she was a model Patrícia Dejesus was in the cast in … Continue reading
Actor/model Taiguara Nazareth finds other ways to get his hustle on: "It’s hard being a black actor"
Taiguara Nazareth, 35, the actor who starred in the 2001 miniseries Presença de Anita spoke with the column “Retratos da Vida”, from the newspaper Extra and talked about his career … Continue reading
In TV show, white woman "becomes" black woman to live out her fantasy: to have sex with a black man – Brazilian styled blackface
Actress Aline Moraes: made up as black woman (left) and as herself With the recent controversy surrounding tennis player Caroline Wozniacki stuffing her top and skirt to impersonate tennis champion Serena … Continue reading
After much promise and hype of 90% black cast, Subúrbia TV series descends into familiar clichés and stereotypes about black Brazilians
Back in September when I first read the news that Brazil’s biggest TV network, Globo, was producing a new TV series that featured a 90% Afro-Brazilian cast, I can’t lie, once again … Continue reading
