Brazil is well-known as a land of beaches, carnivals, soccer and the Amazon. Its people and their culture are deeply unique, intriguing people from all around the world. Yet, South America’s largest ...

Brazil’s demographic makeup has been diverse since colonial times, with indigenous populations, enslaved Africans, and European settlers forming the foundation of the country’s ethnic composition.

Workers were just starting construction on a new apartment complex in northeastern Brazil when they began finding human bones and pottery shards, their edges worn smooth by time. Soon, excavations at ...

People attend a samba concert in the area of Quilombo Pedra do Sal, backdropped by a graffiti depicting Zumbi Dos Palmares, the main leader of Quilombo dos Palmares who became a symbol of the fight ...

Brazil’s Senate was coming to a boil over reports of U.S. investigations and potential boycotts of high-priced coffee. Then Senator Othon Mader rose to call attention to four U.S. housewives touring ...