Olympics

National Historic Museum Receives Archives Documenting Vila Autódromo’s Fight Against Evictions

Clique aqui para Português Emotion and excitement filled the Gilberto Gil auditorium at Rio’s National Historic Museum (MHN) this past Thursday, May 18 on International [...]

May 21, 2017

‘No Boston Olympics’ Demonstrates Effective Olympics Resistance [BOOK REVIEW]

No Boston Olympics: How and Why Smart Cities Are Passing on the Torch, written by Chris Dempsey and Andrew Zimbalist, author of Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind [...]

May 20, 2017

Largest Slave Cemetery Battles to Continue ‘Saying the Unspeakable’ During 2017 Museum Week

Clique aqui para Português The New Blacks Institute (Instituto Pretos Novos, or IPN), a museum in Rio’s Port Region hosting the largest slave cemetery in the Americas [...]

May 16, 2017

Luis born with microcephaly after his mother had Zika

A Year After Pre-Olympic Zika Hysteria, Children With Microcephaly Have Been Forgotten

Clique aqui para Português When Pollyana de Oliveira, 28, gave birth to her third child, she had no idea that something might be wrong. Neither did she have any problems [...]

April 11, 2017

Residents Evicted by the 2016 Olympic Park Fight for Just Compensation

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Mariah Queiroz in Portuguese published by Agência Pública click here. Families evicted to make room for the [...]

April 4, 2017

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