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Your Hairstyle Can Cost You Your Life In Brazil

Brazil’s Black hair revolution continues — despite increased danger of police violence — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Diego loved his strawberry-blond tapered Afro. In the 16-year-old boy’s hometown in Brazil, the hairstyle is referred to as a “Black power” (pronounced “Blackee power”), named for the political movement that…

Hair

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Hair

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Published in LEVEL

·Oct 9, 2020

The Newest Get-Out-the-Vote Tactic Is a PSA Starring Exotic Dancers

‘Get Your Booty to the Poll’ is anything but politics as usual — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. Last month, the bare backside of a voluptuous Black woman popped up in my Facebook feed. Wearing a white G-string and stilettos, she sauntered up a small staircase toward a stripper…

Politics

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The Newest Get-Out-the-Vote Tactic Is a PSA Starring Exotic Dancers

Politics

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Published in ZORA

·Dec 5, 2019

The Iconic Moment Activist Angela Davis Visited Black Brazilian Women

It’s been her mission to commune with other changemakers and address global issues — When esteemed activist Angela Davis arrived in São Paulo, Brazil, in October to promote the Portuguese translation of her autobiography, she had one request — to meet Janice Ferreira da Silva, known as “Preta” (Black woman) Ferreira. Preta, 35, a housing rights activist and musician, had just been released after…

Brazil

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Brazil

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