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Afro-Brazilians ( Portuguese: afro-brasileiros; pronounced [ˈafɾo bɾaziˈle (j)ɾus]) are Brazilians who have predominantly sub-Saharan African ancestry (see "preto"). Most members of another group of people, multiracial Brazilians or pardos, may also have a range of degree of African ancestry.
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Dec 16, 2020 · Around 56% of Brazilians identify as Black—the largest population of African descent outside of Africa—yet Black people make up just 18% of congress, 4.7% of executives in Brazil’s 500...
Aug 12, 2015 · In Brazil, people have tended to describe themselves by skin color rather than race. But that's all changing, as the country's black pride movement gains traction.
Afro-Brazilian history. The history of Afro-Brazilian people spans over five centuries of racial interaction between Africans imported, involved or descended from the effects of the Atlantic slave trade . African origins. The Africans brought to Brazil belonged to two major groups: the West African and the Bantu people.
Brazil's racial reckoning: 'Black lives matter here, too' Police killed nearly six times as many people as in the US last year, and most of them were black.
For Valdecir Nascimento, 63, the Black movement in Brazil was a “turning point” for her as a young woman, leading her from the revolutionary stilt houses in Alagados, to joining more than 1,000...
Black Brazilians protest against racism and police violence. Thousands protest against racism and police violence, a week after a deadly raid in a slum in Rio.
