OPINION: It’s carnival week in Rio de Janeiro, where vibrant parades feature music, dancers and a huge dose of history. Here’s some Afro-Brazilian history from some of the most legendary Afro-carnival ...

SÃO PAULO — It’s worth going a distance for greatness. And great is what the exhibition “Histórias Afro-Atlânticas” (“Afro-Atlantic Histories”) is. With 450 works by more than 200 artists spread over ...

Thousands of young and old descendants of formerly enslaved people donned elaborate costumes Sunday to bring the rhythm, vibrancy and colours of Brazil's Rio Carnival to the streets of Lagos in ...

The scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin America but also the world. As told by others, the narratives of Black peoples ...

“Excess of words in Yoruba” was the justification used by a member of a judging panel at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to dock points from a samba school. The group Unidos de Padre Miguel had put together ...

The date was first suggested and celebrated by a Black group from the south of the country in the 1970s during the military dictatorship Vai além de poder ser um feriado; é um momento de consciência, ...

Over the following three decades, UNESCO brought together some of the best minds from Africa and around the world – including Djibril Tamsir Niane, Cheikh Anta Diop, Théophile Obenga, Ali Mazrui and ...

In Santo Cristo, a neighborhood in the marvelous city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the construction of a new building, Porto Maravalley, promises to usher in a new age of technology startups in the city ...

Visitors from all over the world flock to a lively and historically significant neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, and once there, you understand why. This area, which is lovingly referred to as Little ...

After Brazil abolished slavery, some of those who had been enslaved returned to west Africa The festival helps to keep their heritage alive and celebrate the city's Afro-Brazilian history In Nigeria, ...