This project connects organizations and artists dedicated to Black History in the Americas, the history of photography, and cultural preservation. Since the 1970s, Black movements in Brazil have ...

She explained how she found out from her research that her last name is descended from a colonizer, and that there is still a group in Benin who honor the name for the sake of not erasing history.

The artists on Monday night paraded with the Unidos da Tijuca samba school, many of them dressed in the samba school's yellow and blue colors, with costumes representing not only the deity, but ...

Arte popular, and by extension naïve art, have nonetheless become perennial terms in the Brazilian art scene, applied to multiple generations of artists. The launch of the Naïve Biennial in 1992 ...

IOWA CITY — Taking Brazil’s new Black cinema as its point of departure, “Frequencias: Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Cinema & the Black Diaspora” brings together filmmakers, artists, scholars ...

Candomblé has long been embraced by Brazilian artists such as Grammy winner Caetano Veloso, which has made the religion more accepted in Brazil’s middle class since the 1960s.