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Year Country Category title
25 November 2025 Brazil Racism Black women march for reparations and bem viver
3 June 2025 Brazil Racism Brazil expands reserved places in federal public recruitment
21 December 2023 Brazil Racism Black Consciousness Day becomes a nationwide public holiday
13 November 2023 Brazil Racism Brazil revises its federal education quota law
21 September 2023 Brazil Racism The Supreme Court rejects the Indigenous land cutoff argument
7 August 2023 Brazil Racism New census results expand the visibility of Indigenous Brazil
27 July 2023 Brazil Racism Brazil releases its first census results identifying quilombola communities
11 January 2023 Brazil Racism Brazil classifies racial insult under its racism law
23 February 2021 Brazil Racism Quilombola litigation secures a COVID-19 protection ruling
19 November 2020 Brazil Racism João Alberto Freitas is killed at a Carrefour supermarket
14 March 2018 Brazil Racism Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes are assassinated
18 November 2015 Brazil Racism Black women march in Brasília against racism and violence
29 August 2012 Brazil Racism A federal quota law widens access to universities
26 April 2012 Brazil Racism Brazil's Supreme Federal Court upholds racial university quotas
20 July 2010 Brazil Racism Brazil enacts the Statute of Racial Equality
10 March 2008 Brazil Racism Brazil adds Indigenous history and culture to compulsory school teaching
20 November 2003 Brazil Racism A decree establishes procedures for quilombola land recognition
9 January 2003 Brazil Racism Law 10.639 makes Afro-Brazilian history and culture compulsory in schools
22 April 2000 Brazil Racism Indigenous, Black and landless protesters challenge colonial celebrations
20 April 1997 Brazil Racism An attack on Galdino Pataxó exposes violence against Indigenous people
20 November 1995 Brazil Racism The Zumbi dos Palmares March demands action against racism
5 January 1989 Brazil Racism Law 7,716 defines crimes of racial discrimination
5 October 1988 Brazil Racism The new Constitution recognizes antiracist and quilombola claims
7 July 1978 Brazil Racism A public rally launches the Movimento Negro Unificado
22 November 1910 Brazil Racism Black sailors revolt against flogging in the Brazilian navy
13 May 1888 Brazil Racism The Golden Law ends legal slavery in Brazil
28 September 1871 Brazil Racism Brazil’s Free Womb Law weakens hereditary slavery
25 January 1835 Brazil Racism African Muslim rebels rise in Salvador
8 November 1799 Brazil Racism Four men are executed after the Bahia Conspiracy
12 August 1798 Brazil Racism Bahia manifestos demand freedom and challenge racial discrimination
20 November 1695 Brazil Racism Colonial forces kill Zumbi of Palmares