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

Marketing executive Ike Okonkwo is a Black expat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Before living overseas, this 27-year-old moved to Boston to attend Harvard University ...

In the intricate tapestry of global cultures, Brazil stands as the country with the largest Afro-descendant population outside Africa. This distinction is deeply rooted in the complex history of the ...

What if the way we ring in the New Year is more than just a party Every year, billions of people around the world participate ...

Free culture and free software advocate Gilberto Gil describes his vision for a digital culture built around access to technology. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

When you think about the greatest footballers Brazil has ever produced, many had one thing in common: they were superb dribblers, but their movement encapsulated so much more than that. Ronaldinho’s ...

IS CELEBRATING ALMOST 20 YEARS DANCING TO THE BEAT OF THE DRUMS, FANCY FEATHERS AND BRIGHT BEADED COSTUMES. WE MAKE THE COSTUMES. ACTUALLY, HERE WE DO EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING’S HANDMADE. THE SOUND AND ...

The Brazilian singer Margareth Menezes has been named her country’s next culture minister by president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The new president, known as “Lula”, is reinstating Brazil’s ...

An award ceremony for a program sponsored by the former Ministry of Culture that awarded 500 grants for popular culture (all photos courtesy Brazil’s former Ministry of Culture unless otherwise noted) ...

In Brazil, where music festivals echo through urban centers and football still dominates national identity, a quieter yet equally seismic shift has been taking place online. A new generation of users ...

“Colonisation was a terrible thing. With music we hope we can take something that was very bad, to join the cultures of ...

Sitting down at a rodizio-style restaurant can be daunting, but that ultimately gives way to childlike wonder and excitement once you see the big cuts of meat impaled on skewers that are paraded out ...