Port Region

Two Distant Places Intimately Connected Through the Birth of Brazil’s First Favela

Clique aqui para Português It’s an old story to anyone familiar with Rio’s favelas and their history: the first favela was founded in 1897, when veterans of the Canudos [...]

June 5, 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

Planting a Future: ‘Intelligent Garden’ Brings Environmental Education to Providência Kids

Clique aqui para Português It is not a simple task to keep the attention of twenty children between two and three years old. But on a Monday afternoon, a young crowd sits [...]

May 3, 2017

Americas’ Largest Slave Cemetery to Close at End of Week Due to Abandonment by Rio Authorities

Clique aqui para Português In 1996, Merced Guimarães and her husband Petrucio made a chilling discovery in their new home during an extensive renovation project: workers [...]

March 28, 2017

Favela Activists Launch Series of Unique Favela Tours for Cariocas and Visitors Alike

Clique aqui para Português The second installment of Rolé dos Favelados (Stroll of the Favelados) kicked off this Saturday, February 18 in the downtown favela of [...]

February 20, 2017

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