Brazil

Eduardo Campos Lima
Brazilian Muslims Demand Harvard Return Skull of Enslaved Man Who Fought in Uprising
19 Oct 2022
Universities and museums around the world still hold human remains in their collections. Harvard University follows this discredited practice and has the skull of an enslaved Brazilian who took…
Jemima Pierre, BAR Editor and Contributor
Brazil’s Haitian Training Ground
05 Oct 2022
Brazil is setting up for a run-off election between right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and “leftist” former President Lula da Silva.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Reighan Gillam’s Book, “Visualizing Black Lives”
14 Sep 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Reighan Gillam. Gillam is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology…
Brian Mier
‘Go back to the plantation’ – Curitiba, Brazil Moves to Impeach Black City Councilor
17 May 2022
The first impeachment process against a city councilor in the 329-year history of Curitiba – the Brazilian city that most cherishes its “European heritage” – is underway, and it has nothing to do…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Genocide: The Social Lynching of Africans and their descendants in Brazil, Abdias do Nascimento
17 Nov 2021
The late Brazilian intellectual, artist, and activist Abdias do Nascimento argues that racial democracy is premised on an idea of racial mixing that not only valorizes whiteness, but is predica
Danny Haiphong , BAR contributor
Independent Journalist Corner: A Conversation with Maria Felipa of Frente Favela Brazil
28 Mar 2018
“Slavery is the factor that better explains the social problems in the country.”
Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
No Holding Back “Black” Brazil
22 Mar 2018
“The Brazilian state is conducting an even more lethal war against its Black population than its northern counterpart’s militarized oppression of U.S. Blacks.”
Jaime A Alves
Marielle Franco’s Assassination: One of Tens of Thousands of Black Murders in Brazil
21 Mar 2018
“Brazil`s terrocratic regime continues producing black dead bodies in astonishing scales without disturbing the normalcy of everyday political life in this country.”
Gregory Duff Morton
Blood on the Land in Brazil
14 Mar 2018
“The crimes appear to follow a simple, grim logic: kill the leaders.”