Clébio Ferreira, 36, founder of Quilombaque in the Perus neighborhood of São Paulo on Dec. 5, 2020. A dozen people are dancing around a bonfire in a yard between two large warehouses in São Paulo.

SALVADOR, Brazil, Sept 20 (Reuters) - For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the "quilombo" communities founded by ...

The Afro-Brazilian community of Quilombo de Bombas in São Paulo state has welcomed a court ruling ordering the state to issue it with a land title to its ancestral territory located inside a state ...

Maria Bernadete Pacífico, the leader of the quilombo Pitanga dos Palmares, a priestess of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé, and the former Secretary for Racial Equality of Simões Filho, in Bahia ...

Communities of descendants of African slaves who escaped forced labour to form rural villages – called quilombos – are fighting for their survival. Like other indigenous peoples whose lands are being ...

Brazilian chefs are discovering the health benefits of Quilombo cuisine - recipes handed down by the descendants of African slaves, who escaped and set up their own communities. The Quilombo diet is ...

Quilombo dos Palmares – founded by Africans who escaped slavery – maintained its independence for 100 years and has become a touchstone for a new generation A palm-fringed ridge rises above the plains ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Longtime residents of one of the country’s thousands of Quilombo communities have been given land titles for the first time. Quilombo communities ...

Quince jam, quince soup with cheese, quince liqueur: these are just some of the delicacies celebrated in Quilombo Mesquita, a community founded by black people fleeing slavery during Brazil’s colonial ...

Leonard Abrams' scattershot docu, "Quilombo Country," ventures into little-known territory to explore the quilombos, thousands of communities founded by runaway slaves in the mountains and forests of ...