Walter Firmo, an 86-year-old photographer, spent most of his career radically shifting the visual narrative about Black communities and culture in Brazil.
Writer and activist Ailton Krenak on Friday became the first Indigenous person inducted into the Brazilian Academy of Letters, as dancers in feather headdresses shook up the staid proceedings of
It was a historic week for Brazil’s Krenak Indigenous group after decades of being overlooked at best, and at worst, subjugated and tortured. On Tuesday, the Krenak people received a
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) It was a historic week for Brazil’s Krenak people, getting both literary esteem and an apology for dictatorship-era crimes both firsts for the Indigenous people of the country. On Tuesday, the indigenous group received a formal apology for human rights abuses they suffered during the military dictatorship (1964-1985) […]