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Brazilian Legends Heading To D.C.

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 12.05.2012 | DC
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WASHINGTON -- Os Mutantes was once a band record store nerds would to cite to sound cool. Their albums were out-of-print, hard to find and buzzed abou...

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FILM: Is Brazilian Film The Future?

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
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Lauri Lyons

This year's Premiere Brazil film festival hosted by the Museum of Modern Art and the Rio Film Festival produced a line up of films that can best be described as the art of social activism.

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Afro-Brazilian History, Beats and Culture

Lauri Lyons | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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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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