Culture
Rio Carnaval Gets Serious with Tragic Story of a Broken Dam
In 2015, the collapse of mining company Samarco’s dams at a mine in ...
Rio Carnaval Parade Celebrating the Amazon Indians Leaves Big Farm Livid
Rio’s Carnaval festivities were threatened this year by a spat pitting a well-known parade ...
For a Time, Brazil’s Samba Was a Weapon Against the Dictatorship
As the world gets into the Carnaval spirit, we look at how Brazilian music ...
Donald Trump: an Improbable Hit of Brazil’s Carnaval
President Donald Trump has become one of the new stars of Brazil’s Carnaval, with ...
100 Years of Brazilian Modernism Celebrated in This Anita Malfatti’s Expo
The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art (MAM) is housing the works of Brazilian ...
How the Press Joined Conservatives to Keep Illegal Slave Trade Alive in Brazil
The negative influence of the Brazilian press on the illegal slave trade is analyzed ...
Justice, Press and People Deserve Credit for Brazil’s Waning Corruption
Last month, the respected Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki died in a plane ...
Brazilians of All Creeds Go to Sea to Celebrate African Deity Iemanjá
Dolls, roses, herbs-of-grace, white palm leaves, and a lot of fruit lent their colors ...
Brazil’s Austerity and a Turn to the Right Restrict Women’s Reproductive Rights
Late last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the Zika virus ...
There Stood Brazil’s Bibi Ferreira, 94, in Fabulous Form, on Broadway
On June 1, 1922, when Bibi Ferreira let out her first wail as the ...
