My week in Bahia began last November in Salvador, the largest city in Brazil's northeast region and the thumping heart of Afro-Brazilian culture.My guide, Conor, picked me up at the airport and ...

As we prepare for the 2020 Folklife Festival, our Brazil program team is meeting some of the most important cultural organizers of Brazilian events in the Washington, D.C., area. It’s been a ...

Moments later, we met Negra Jhô, a beauty entrepreneur revered for popularizing Afro-Brazilian hairstyles. Taking one look at me, she wrapped me in an embrace as though I had been a long-lost client.

An Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition, Candomblé was formed in Salvador by the slaves of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo and Benin and is a loose association of their animism-rooted beliefs ...

This Brazilian region is an African treasure on the other side of the Atlantic. Music, religion, and dance reflect a tradition of revelry and defiance in Bahia, Brazil’s most Afro-Brazilian region.

The music utilizes Bahia’s “Axé” Afro-Caribbean rhythms, incorporating reggae, calypso and Brazilian beats. The public ...

Brazil’s Bahia a link for African Americans. By Patrick J. McDonnell . Sept. 23, ... Roman Catholic elements imported by the Portuguese coexist with Afro-Brazilian devotion, ...

It wasn't even called Afro-Brazilian fashion, but Afro or Afro-Bahia because it was specifically attached to Black people in Bahia and the African influences here." Advertisement.

Following the rhythms of heart, soul and drums--a culture brought by slaves from Africa to the richly endowed Portuguese colonial city of Salvador ...

Altino Machado [pt] says that everything is ready for the Bahia Afro Film Festival, which takes place in Salvador, Brazil from November 18 through 28. “The main goal is to spread the word, to ...

A Bahian Caterer Serves Up the Flavorful Delights of Afro-Brazilian Food in Palms. Reni Silva and Ilma Wright’s Sabor da Bahia offers specialties from the northeastern Brazilian state ...

Two(ish) decades and an ocean away from that conversation with my grandma, I sat at a beach in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. This time, the smell of acarajé mingled with the sea breeze.