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Brazil, facing calls for reparations, wrangles with its painful legacy of slavery
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 3 months agoNearly 5 million kidnapped Africans disembarked in Brazil, more than 12 times the number taken to...
Rio de Janeiro: Your Guide To Experiencing 'All Black Everything' In The City
Travel Noire via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLocated in Brazil’s southeastern region, Rio de Janeiro is the second-largest city in the country....
Confederate Festival in Brazilian town where US exiles from the South founded a slave-owning colony...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPeople stand in traditional outfits between dances at the annual Festa Confederada, or Confederate...
Learning Afro-Brazilian history through its carnival parades
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOPINION: It's carnival week in Rio de Janeiro, where vibrant parades feature music, dancers and a...
How Black Latinos found a future in an Alabama HBCU after slavery
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the 1900s, an Afro-Cuban skilled worker named Eleno Lino was on the hunt for education. Lino...
As a child, she stitched clothes in a sweatshop. Now she sees modern slavery everywhere
CNN via Yahoo News· 12 months agoWhen Nasreen Sheikh walks down a busy street, she doesn’t see the faces of the people walking by –...
Children in Brazil are climbing 70-foot-high trees so you can eat açaí berries
CNN via AOL· 2 months agoAt the port of Igarapé da Fortaleza, in the far north of Brazil, dock workers unload large...
Lula takes over in Brazil, slams Bolsonaro's anti-democratic threats
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBRASILIA (Reuters) -Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president on Sunday,...
Josh Hawley Gets Holy Hell After Juneteenth Claim About Christianity And Slavery
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 11 months agoSen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) attempted a little revisionist history on social media on Monday. It didn’t...
A taste of Brazil's Carnival coming to Bemidji on Feb. 24 in free concert
The Bemidji Pioneer, Minn. via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFeb. 14—BEMIDJI — Brazil's annual Carnival has been called "The Greatest Show on Earth." Bemidji will get a taste of the festival, which ended on Tuesday, next week when a Brazilian-born dancer ...