Author: Sed
Sed
An expat now living in Northeast Brazil, Sed Miles works hand in hand with working-class, Afro-Brazilian artists, activists and intellectuals fighting against Brazil’s systematic racial and class barriers using a Pan-African, intersectional pedagogy. Each week they will present dispatches from the archives that will bridge communities and be a resource for the future. The mission of the Archives is to help unite the Black diaspora through documenting, preserving, and sharing stories that represent the shared themes and experiences of working class Black people. The series will focus on Brazil and the United States, societies built and held together by generations of Africa’s unshakable children.
Between the end of June and the first week of July, Brazil celebrates several annual holidays with a host of…
Anielle Franco, the Minister of Racial Equality, and activist and scholar Angela Davis attended the opening of the 17th annual…
I love walking through neighborhoods in Salvador. It’s a city of hills with surprises beyond each slope. During the summer…
A recent article reveals that one out of five Black families in Brazil is experiencing hunger, with a rate of…
From the moment I disembarked the Aeromexico plane in Salvador in 2011, I was swatting away the stereotypical assumptions and…
Salvador Bahia, Brazil, known as the carnival capital, also hosts the country’s most popular harvest festival called Festa Junina. This…
The Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rio Grande do Sul (MPF-RS) launched an investigation last week into a slavery…
State deputy Thainara Faria (PT) reported that she was prevented from signing the attendance book for parliamentarians The Brazilian political…
The United Nations’ special advisor for the prevention of genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, arrived in Brazil on May 2 to…
In a shocking public incident of racism, Sandra Mathias, a supporter of former right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, committed a…
This (in the picture above) is Lucimar Souza, the winner of the Ebony Goddess pageant in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil…
A Brazilian couple has been convicted of keeping a domestic worker in conditions of slavery for over three decades. The…