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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Agenda Radio May 26, 2023
26 May 2023
Black Women's Alliance in Brazil, expunging criminal records, and the Durham Report and the FBI.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Black Women's Movement in Brazil
26 May 2023
Members of Brazil’s Black Women’s Alliance will be in New York at the United Nation’s forum on Afro Descendants.
Brian Mier , Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
Bolsonaro Supporters Attack the Brazilian Government
11 Jan 2023
Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro vandalized the supreme court, congress, and presidential palace. Brazilian based journalist Brian Mier explains.
Eduardo Campos Lima
Brazilian Muslims Demand Harvard Return Skull of Enslaved Man Who Fought in Uprising
19 Oct 2022
Universities and museums around the world still hold human remains in their collections. Harvard University follows this discredited practice and has the skull of an enslaved Brazilian who took part…
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Reighan Gillam’s Book, “Visualizing Black Lives”
14 Sep 2022
In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. This week’s featured author is Reighan Gillam. Gillam is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
Impeachment of Renato Freitas in Brazil
24 Jun 2022
Renato Freitas is a Black City Councillor in Curitiba, Brazil. He and others joined in national protests over the killing of Congolese immigrant Mugenyi Kabagambe, who was beaten to death after…
Brian Mier
‘Go back to the plantation’ – Curitiba, Brazil Moves to Impeach Black City Councilor
17 May 2022
The first impeachment process against a city councilor in the 329-year history of Curitiba – the Brazilian city that most cherishes its “European heritage” – is underway, and it has nothing to do…
Editors, The Black Agenda Review
EXCERPT: Genocide: The Social Lynching of Africans and their descendants in Brazil, Abdias do Nascimento
17 Nov 2021
The late Brazilian intellectual, artist, and activist Abdias do Nascimento argues that racial democracy is premised on an idea of racial mixing that not only valorizes whiteness, but is predica
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Half of Brazil’s Black “Quilombos” Denied State Recognition
01 Dec 2020
The autonomous settlements established by Black and indigenous Brazilians to escape slavery and ongoing oppression number between 3,000 and 5,000, “but the Brazilian government only recognizes abou
Julian Cola
Ungentrifying International News Reporting from Brazil to Ecuador and Beyond
24 Jun 2020
So-called “racial democracy” has systematically excluded and kept black people at the dirt end of the socioeconomic totem pole in Brazil, as reflected in its media.