One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio. Modern Brazil ...
In the summer of 2004, Fatuma Muhina flew across the ocean from Kenya and landed in Pittsburgh. Her family had been uprooted by Somalia’s civil war and resettled in the United States. She arrived in ...
Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods, the religious traditions, and, of course, the music - in large part because of its African roots. That's the message one of Rio de Janeiro's famous samba ...