Today’s Black travelers can look to South America to find connections with African culture. Salvador, the capital city of the Brazilian state of Bahia, features a multitude of culinary, fine art, ...

Frejon? Fray John? The name sounded odd to my six-year-old ears. It didn’t quite possess the same melody as the spicy Yoruba soups I saw the adults pair with pounded yam, nor did it have the casual ...

SAO PAOLO, Brazil (UNHCR) - Seated in his São Paulo apartment among bongos, tambourines and paintings of savannah sunsets, Mikanda*, a soft-spoken 38-year-old, tells the story of his arrival alone in ...

Back in 2002, according to the Estado do S. Paulo newspaper, former U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly asked Fernando Henrique Cardoso, then-president of Brazil, “Does Brazil have blacks, too?” ...

November is marked by offerings of marigolds to the dead in Mexico, minutes of silence to honour fallen soldiers in Britain and turkey feasts to give thanks in the United States. In Brazil it used to ...

Race and politics in Brazil / Benedita da Silva -- The black movement: without identity there is no consciousness or struggle / Thereza Santos -- Where are the blacks? / Antonio Pitanga -- Olodum and ...

Mankind has no right to leave 733 million people to the scourge of hunger. In a world that annually produces almost six billion tonnes of food, this is inadmissible. In a world where military spending ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Isaac Mizrahi writes about multicultural marketing and business. As the country's demographic trends shift towards a ...

Steve Babaeko is the CEO & Chief Creative Officer, X3M Ideas and a Visiting Fellow at the Henley Business School, University of Reading. Africa, the birthplace of humanity, has always been a source of ...