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.

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 ...

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 ...

This year, the 31-year-old took on the new challenge of joining some of Brazil's most traditional samba artists as a songwriter for a Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro.

Among the Afro-Brazilian personalities honored is Emanoel Araújo, founder, director, and curator of the Afro-Brazil Museum, who died on September 7, and is recognized for defending, valuing, and ...

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.