SALVADOR, Brazil, Sept 20 (Reuters) - For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the "quilombo" communities founded by ...

The largest quilombo in Brazil was Palmares, which existed for much of the 1600s. At its largest Palmares covered 10,000 square miles on Brazil’s northeastern coast and counted 20,000 members.

Quilombo Country Leonard Abrams' scattershot docu, "Quilombo Country," ventures into little-known territory to explore the quilombos, thousands of communities founded by runaway slaves in the ...

The history of Brazil, Palmares, and Zumbi illustrates how state efforts to whitewash national narratives can backfire.

The Afro-Brazilian community of Quilombo de Bombas in São Paulo state has welcomed a court ruling ordering the state to issue it with a land title to its ancestral territory located inside a ...

Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged seer ...

Virginie Besnard, cofondatrice du Quilombo, à Inguiniel, devant une des yourtes du tiers-lieu. Au loin, le hangar abrite un atelier de menuiserie et d’ébénisterie, de couture, bientôt un ...

Samedi 12 octobre 2024, une nouvelle journée portes ouvertes a été organisée à l’éco-lieu du Quilombo, à Mané-Bihan en Inguiniel (Morbihan). Ce site atypique met en valeur l’habitat ...

Quilombo est un film réalisé par Carlos Diegues avec Antonio Pompeo, Zezé Motta. Synopsis : En 1650, a la sucrerie de Santa Rita, la revolte gronde. Les esclaves africains, lasses de leur sort ...

Quilombo residents now hope that a proper count of their numbers and more elected voices will open the door to improved social services and guarantees of rights for people and places long left ...