Unfortunately, racism always seems to erupt in soccer regardless of the level or location. The most incident involves the targeting…
Salvador Bahia, Brazil, known as the carnival capital, also hosts the country’s most popular harvest festival called Festa Junina. This…
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…
The recent discovery of forced labor in the Brazilian wine industry has shocked the world and exposed the ongoing problem…
On March 14, 2018, Marielle Franco, a Black, queer, feminist and socialist councilwoman, and her driver Anderson Gomes were assassinated…
Carnival season has ended, and I wanted to share my recent experience at the largest street carnival in the world…
The Iemanjá Festival is an Afro-Brazilian spiritual celebration in honor of the orixá Iemanjá (also spelled Yemanja), which took place last…
Right-wing, antidemocratic supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro illegally stormed three key federal buildings on Sunday, January 8th. Claiming…
Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous carnival has been suspended for the first time in over a century due to the country’s…