Law creates the Cultural Foundation Palmares

On 20 November 1971, Grupo Palmares organized an evocative act in Porto Alegre honoring Black resistance and Palmares. The date shifted public memory away from an emancipation story centered on the...

Law 5,859 regulated domestic employment and established a limited set of rights, including registration and paid vacation under specified conditions. It was a milestone after generations in which...

Bahia State Decree 25,095 ended the requirement that Candomblé terreiros register with and obtain authorization from the police’s Games and Customs authority. The change followed decades of...

On 7 July 1978, Black activists and allies gathered on the steps of São Paulo’s Municipal Theater to denounce racial discrimination, including racist violence and exclusion in sport. The demonstration...

The heritage council approved federal listing for Ilê Axé Iyá Nassô Oká, known as Terreiro da Casa Branca, in Salvador. The decision followed a divisive debate over whether an Afro-Brazilian sacred...

Promulgated on 5 October 1988 after the dictatorship, the Constitution made racism a crime without bail or statute of limitations and recognized definitive property rights for remnant quilombo...

Law 7,716 made specified acts of racial discrimination criminal offences. Named for Black congressman Carlos Alberto Caó de Oliveira, it followed constitutional recognition that racism was a crime....

On 20 November 1995, Black organizations from across Brazil marched in Brasília in the Marcha Zumbi dos Palmares contra o Racismo, pela Cidadania e a Vida. Held 300 years after Zumbi’s death, the...

The Boa Vista community in Oriximiná, Pará, received the first collective title granted to a quilombola territory in Brazil. The title emerged through years of community organizing and advocacy,...

Law 9,459 amended Brazil’s anti-discrimination statute to include prejudice based on ethnicity, religion, and national origin alongside race and color. For Afro-Brazilian communities, this offered a...