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The Fight Against Coronavirus in Brazil’s Indigenous Northern Villages #Brazils Part 2—North

By Ariel Bentes • Translation by Mikayla Ribeiro • April 1, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in a five-part series, published in Portuguese by favela-based online magazine Favela em Pauta and titled “Brazils: Stories of the Periphery in the Pandemic.” Each essay […]

‘Careful with Neguin’: The Political Art of a Black Favela Body in the City [VIDEO]

Clique aqui para Português It was June 2014, the Brazil-Cameroon World Cup game was on in a restaurant in upscale Gávea in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. Kelson Succi, a black resident of Complexo do […]

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Faced with Gentrification, Vidigal Artists Design Plaques to Mark and Preserve Community Memory

By Claire Jones, Evan Fantozzi • April 8, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Although Bárbara Nascimento is a friend and co-organizer with André Gosi in Vidigal, a South Zone favela which has experienced significant gentrification in recent years, “no one has the slightest idea” about […]