Brazil

“He just called me nigga!” says Obi. “Did you hear? He just called me nigga.” “He” is the White hot dog vendor who has, in fact, just called Obi “nigga” – or “negao” in Portuguese – to tell him that his hot dog is ready and that he needs to come and get it. This […]

I came to Brazil expecting to be the object of insatiable female lust. Everything I’d read about the country told me that there would be gorgeous women everywhere in search of a big, strong American Black man. SEE ALSO: 2016 Rio Olympics Coverage Journalist Jelani Cobb put a premature end to a number of Brazilian […]

Carme Cristina da Silva Lima, who is running for city council in the town of Itacoatiara, Brazil, was placed behind bars on Sunday–election day to be exact–for allegedly distributing small packets of cocaine to constituents who promised to vote for her, reports TNOnline. SEE ALSO: Top 9 Qualities To Hate In Rappers The 32-year-old politician reportedly drew […]

With Brazil’s booming economy and availability of jobs — combined with the recent Haitian earthquake and poverty — many Haitians are making the long trek to Brazil in search of jobs. SEE ALSO: Is Common Too Classy For Drake Beef? The Haitian migrants endure journeys of thousands of miles with small amounts of money in […]

SAO PAULO, Brazil — Hospital officials in northern Brazil say a woman have given birth to conjoined twin boys with one body and two heads. Obstetrician Neila Dahas of the Santa Casa de Misericodia Hospital in the city of Belem says the twins were born Monday by Cesarean section. She says on the hospital’s website […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Rosa Cardoso has practiced the Afro-Brazilian religion of Umbanda almost all of her 89 years, yet she hasn’t stopped hiding her faith from the rest of the world. SEE ALSO:Occupy Protesters Shut Down Ports The door to the temple she runs in a middle-class neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro sits […]

RIO DE JANEIRO — More than 3,000 police and soldiers backed by armored personnel carriers raced into Brazil’s biggest slum before dawn Sunday, quickly gaining control of a shantytown ruled for decades by a heavily armed drug gang. The takeover of the Rocinha neighborhood was the most ambitious operation yet in an effort to increase […]

Protesters are outraged at the lack of Afro-Brazilian and Black models in this year’s São Paulo fashion week. “We cannot accept the world of fashion insisting on being a stronghold for the Eurocentric,” said Frei Davi Santos, the Brazilian race campaigner behind the protests. The protesters are calling for a 20% quota of Black models, […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and at least 13 people were killed, including the shooter. It was not clear whether the gunman, who is believed to be a former student at the school, shot himself or was killed by police. At […]

TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — A new and ominous rain began falling again Friday in mountain towns where mudslides and flooding killed at least 509 people, hindering rescuers’ efforts to reach survivors even as relatives hauled the dead down the hills to freshly dug graves.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Survivors of mudslides in mountain towns north of Rio recounted Thursday the horrors of watching homes swept away by walls of earth and water and of frantic efforts to dig with bare hands and reach trapped neighbors.