Teatro Experimental do Negro

Abdias do Nascimento founds the Teatro Experimental do Negro

📅 13 Òktober 1944

Abdias do Nascimento founded the Teatro Experimental do Negro (TEN) in Rio de Janeiro on 13 October 1944. The organization challenged the exclusion and stereotyped casting of Black performers while...

The Black newspaper Quilombo publishes its first issue

📅 9 Desèmber 1948

The first issue of Quilombo: vida, problemas e aspirações do negro appeared on 9 December 1948, linked to the Teatro Experimental do Negro. Under Abdias do Nascimento’s coordination, the periodical...