The picture I selected for this week’s photoshare is a photo of 21-year-old student and LGBTQ rights activist Matheusa Passarelli. He was assassinated in one of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Passarelli was missing, and after a week of investigations, the police search team determined that their body may have been burned by drug traf…[Read more]

When I think of illegality and civil rights the first image that comes to my mind is the one of the body young boy laying on the shores of the beach. This image stopped the entire world because of its impact on people all over the world. The photo of the young boy’s body is a consequence of the Syrian War which has led to a refugee crisis into…[Read more]

In a 5-to-4 vote, the court gave President Donald Trump the power to secure the country’s borders with argument to secure the United States of the dangers that Muslims pose to the country.

Executive Order 13769 – Executive Order 13769, titled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, often referred to as the Mu…[Read more]

The first image was taken during the Japanese internment period (1942-1946) in the United States (no name of photographer)

The second image is from 1932 in the Northeast of Brazil (unknown photographer)

As we can see, both images show concentration camps. When hearing the word “concentration camps”, we are immediately drawn into thinking about…[Read more]

In this picture, we can see James Baldwin and his book “No Name In The Street”, which was published in 1972. As we studied in class, James Baldwin was an amazing figure. He was friends with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. However differently from those two civil rights activists, Baldwin left the country and lived in Turkey and France for a…[Read more]

1992_Tupac’s speech at the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement banquet

In this picture, Tupac is giving a speech at the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement banquet. Malcolm has had a great influence on the hip hop culture. Malcolm is still kept alive nowadays from the continuation of his form of activism till the lyrics on rappers songs. Tupac is one of…[Read more]

2018_ In the far right of this picture (and of the politcal spectrum) we can see Wilson Witzel, first round winning candidate for governor in Rio de Janeiro and ally of Bolsonaro. In the image, Witzel and his supporters can be seen after bringing down and tearing apart the sign of the street named after Marielle Franco. Marielle was a black, gay…[Read more]