THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Bahia was the center of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade in Brazil for centuries, and many African customs, practices and creeds are still very alive in the state. These ...

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, ...

“Excess of words in Yoruba” was the justification used by a member of a judging panel at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to dock points from a samba school. The group Unidos de Padre Miguel had put together ...

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and ...

A 392-page hard bound book entitled Negroes in Brazil: A study of Race Contact at Bahia by Donald Pierson. The cover is green with yellow text and graphics. The cover shows an outline of a map of ...