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Memories of Abdias Nascimento, founder of Brazil’s Black Experimental Theatre
July 18, 2024They spanned the first and second millennia like twin colossi and will remain in the hearts and minds of millions of people whom they encouraged to sunder the bondage of oppression.
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The 1964 coup continues in Brazil’s military schools
April 02, 2024Perhaps a better headline would be “The teaching of false history in Brazil's military schools.”
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Yanomami leader repeats demand: Illegal gold miners, leave our indigenous territory!
March 15, 2024This year, Salgueiro brought a samba to the avenue that celebrates the battle of the Yanomami people in dealing with a humanitarian crisis caused by illegal mining.
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The brutality of our tragedies: An interview with Brazilian novelist Fernando Bonassi
December 15, 2023With the novel Violence, Fernando Bonassi completes one of the most bruising trilogies in the last twenty years of Brazilian literature.
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The life of radical activist Paula Solomon celebrated in Los Angeles
September 29, 2023Beloved comrade Paula Solomon (1946-2023) was memorialized by a crowd of about 50 people at the historic activist First Unitarian Church on Sept. 3, 2023.
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Capoeira-based action musical tells of the escaped slave republic Palmares
June 06, 2023Palmares is a compelling story of a people fighting to preserve their freedom against the imperialism of their time.
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‘Never-Ending Youth’: Urariano Mota’s novel-memoir of resistance to Brazilian fascism
June 02, 2023Based on real people or composites of real people, Mota’s work offers snapshots of 1970s Brazil’s radical youth movement.
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After expulsion, the Panará commemorate 25 years of their return home in Brazil
December 21, 2022An Indigenous people celebrates overcoming their tragic external contact.
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‘Never-Ending Youth’: A poetic novel or an essayistic memoir?
October 17, 2022Never-Ending Youth is a 2017 novel by the Brazilian journalist Urariano Mota, active in the clandestine Communist Party of Brazil during the harshest period of the country’s military dictatorship from the late 1960s to the early 1970s. The novel is set in Recife, capital of Pernambuco state and a major city of Brazil’s Northeast, a patriarchal cultural zone which corresponds to the U.S. South as a former plantation area but...
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‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 02, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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