The custom of wearing white emerged from Afro-Brazilian religious rituals that were once criminalized and later absorbed into ...

“Departure for the coffee harvest by ox cart, Vale do Paraíba, Brazil, c. 1885” (all images courtesy of Instituto Moreira Salles) Enlargement and detail of “Departure for the coffee harvest by ox cart ...

The names of players who played for Brazil are among the greatest to ever do it (Pele, Socrates, Romario) and a new ...

The Trump Administration recently cut funding to the 400 Years of African American History Commission. Another cut targeted the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana and its planned exhibit on resistance to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The deadliest police operation in Brazil's history left at least 121 people dead this week in Rio de Janeiro. The raids targeted the Comando Vermelho, or Red Command ...

Mr. Campante is a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins. Mr. Levitsky is a professor of government at Harvard. On Thursday, the Brazilian Supreme Court did what the U.S. Senate and federal courts ...