A heightened focus on Brazil’s African heritage is a driving factor in the South American country’s surging visitor arrivals. In 2024, Brazil recorded its best-ever year for international arrivals, ...

RIO DE JANEIRORIO DE JANEIRO — It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, ...

Brazil is not just a country. It is a feeling. A rhythm. A slow Saturday afternoon with a steaming pot on the stove, drums echoing through a neighborhood, and children practicing kicks on a dusty ...

A towering inferno of smoke and flames dominated the Rio de Janeiro skyline on Sunday night, signaling the abrupt demise of Brazil’s National Museum, a 200-year-old institution that housed a priceless ...

The wife of the Lagos State Governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, has said that the importance of preserving the Afro-Brazillian cultural heritage is to promote cultural diversity for future generations of ...

Passinho, a vibrant dance style originating from Rio de Janeiro's favelas, received official recognition as an "intangible cultural heritage" in Rio. This designation was the result of a law proposed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marcio Pereira with a beer in Vila Germanica, host to an annual Oktoberfest in Brazil. Leo Laps/dpa Hand in hand, a group of ...

PANAMA BEACH CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Rio de Janeiro native, Michelle Plemons, owns the only Brazilian grocery store in Panama City Beach. Plemons imports goods from South Florida to bring the flavor ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It all started with nifty leg movements, strong steps backwards and forwards, paced to Brazilian funk music. Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — ...