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Race in Brazil

Quilombo Machado community, one of 11 quilombo communities in Porte Allegro, Brazil, 2017. 

‘Existing and resisting’: Black quilombo communities fight for land, rights in Brazil

Human rights

Monday is Black Consciousness Day in Brazil. It falls on day of death of Zumbi dos Palmares, the leader of Palmares Quilombo, a community of runaway slaves and their descendants, in 1695. There are still thousands of quilombos across Brazil, and many continue to fight for their land and their rights.

A woman receives a plate of food donated by the Leao Xlll Foundation amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 7, 2021.

Hunger, unemployment, health care inequity: The pandemic’s devastating impact on Brazil’s Black communities

Pele standing and flashing a victory sign, surrounded by happy French people, in Paris

‘Pelé’ doc kicks up questions on race, violence and democracy in Brazil

Brazil

In Rio, the descendants of slaves try to hang on to their historic communities

Culture