Tag: blacks

Brazil Cleans the Dictionary with a PC Brush

In Plato’s Dialogues, Cratylus considers that the names of things are naturally related to ...

Brazil Prods Colleges Into Adopting Quotas

Brazil’s Ministry of Education’s (MEC) Afro-Atitude Program will distribute 500 scholarships to students of ...

In Brazil, a Special Secretariat to End Discrimination

The Special Secretariat of Policies for the Promotion of Racial Equality (Sepir) celebrated its ...

World Bank Helps Brazil’s Black Quilombo Population

World Bank (IRBD) resources will benefit the population of the Curiaú Quilombo, through the ...

Blacks Denounce Brazil for Racism at the OAS

There are more than 90 complaints against Brazil in the Human Rights Commission of ...

In Brazil, Quotas and Scholarship Bring 5% More Blacks to College

The number of Afro-descendant students entering Brazilian universities in 2004 grew 5% in comparison ...

OAS Opens New Office on Blacks with Brazilian Money

With a renewed call for a hemispheric anti-racism convention to be in place sometime ...

The Brazilian Equation: 45% Blacks 2% of Entrepreneurs

Providing incentives for loans to black businessmen was one of the ideas that received ...

In Brazil, the Racial Democracy Myth Lives Forever

As Brazil’s new mayors take up their positions it is worth reflecting on the ...

10,000 from 14 Countries Expected at Brazil’s Amazon Forum

The general coordinator of the IV Pan-Amazon Social Forum, Adilson Vieira, informed that a ...