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Offensive Music Banned At Publicly Funded Events

AP | Posted 03.28.2012

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BRASILIA, Brazil -- A Brazilian state has approved a law banning the use of public funds to pay for events where songs that offend women and gays are ...

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Murders Spike During Police Strike

AP | Posted 04.05.2012

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SAO PAULO — The murder rate in Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has soared during a state police strike that has entered its fourth day. Th...

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I Came, I Saw, and Life Goes On

Charles K. Williams | Posted 11.17.2011

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Charles K. Williams

www.chuckchillout.tumblr.com At the current moment I am typing away in a resort hotel because my flight was delayed until midnight. I am in no way c...

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lauri Lyons

While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.

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Bahia Bakari, Comoros Crash Survivor, Returns To Father Iin Paris

AP | MICHEL EULER and TOM MALITI | Posted 05.25.2011

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LE BOURGET, France — A severely bruised young girl believed to be the only survivor of an Indian Ocean plane crash flew back Thursday to Paris, ...

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