Brazilian choreographer Cassi Abranches has two current shows set to live music. One is the ongoing tour of “Black Sabbath — ...

As a student, she already “felt a great need to know and understand the role of black people in Brazilian history,” and hers was never merely a dispassionate investigation—it was a personal ...

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio.

Russo explained that the school presidents liked to talk about Africa and its religions ... region and enslaved in the Brazilian state of Bahia. As one of her people's quimbanda, colonizers ...

In Brazil, black and brown people face higher unemployment rates than white people, earn lower wages, and are more likely to work in the informal sector. These findings come from a survey by the ...

In a busy workshop, Leandro Vieira oversees preparations for Rio de Janeiro's dazzling Carnival parade, where his samba ...

But despite this dominance, sertanejo has little export potential. Few artists care about going global, says Mr Morel. That ...

Doctor Thayza Matos is a department fellow. The Brazil native decided to teach at UNM to share her story of African ...

Irina Shayk made her debut at Rio de Janeiro's Carnival festivities in a bedazzled skin-baring look and shared some snaps of ...

The enhanced appetite for Brazilian and Western African crude has pushed up premiums ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and ...

During Sao Paulo's famous Carnival, a group of Brazilian police officers caught everyone's attention by arresting a suspected ...