Balé Folclórico da Bahia aims to give an authentic taste of Afro-Brazilian history and culture with every high kick and undulation that unfolds onstage. Using drumming and religious chanting as part ...

Visit the city of Salvador a vibrant repository of African influence in Brazil. African-Brazilians provided Brazil with internationally renowned cultural symbols: samba and carnival. The center of ...

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Although acarajé has ...

The Brazilian singer Margareth Menezes has been named her country’s next culture minister by president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The new president, known as “Lula”, is reinstating Brazil’s ...

Boipeba, an idyllic island in Bahia state, has some of Brazil’s most beautiful beaches. Mangaba Cultivo de Coco bought up a fifth of the island to turn it into a hotel resort threatening the local ...

CACHOEIRA, BRAZIL — Semaj Williams, a stress-management consultant from New Jersey, feels Brazil in his past, and his present. “It’s very clear to me that in another life I was Brazilian,” said the ...

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and ...

Brazil's strategy to sharply increase its U.S. visitor arrivals is tied to expanding travelers' focus beyond Rio de Janeiro and other familiar districts to lesser-visited, yet equally exotic areas of ...

Ondas Cultural & Movement Arts presents:Carnaval in Bahia on Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 4 PM at the Oak Cliff Cultural Center Free and open to the public. Spots in the workshop are first come first ...

This year, musical group Olodum will lead Europe’s largest Afro-Brazilian festival – the 24th edition of the Lavage de la Madeleine, to take place in Paris from September 9 to 14 as part of the Year ...