In the Dreams favela, in the Brazilian city of Ferraz de Vasconcelos, Crislaine Fernandes da Silva strolls to work for her morning conference call. She works out of a shipping container that’s been ...

A study based on the analysis of mobile phone data reveals that residents of favelas in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, exhibit less variability in their daily travel patterns than residents of formal ...

The idea of Arts Visalia's latest virtual exhibit was planted over a year ago when Eddie Salas wanted to expose a new generation to Chicano art, including the work of his late friend Ricardo Favela, ...

COVID-19 is worsening hardship in Brazil's working-class settlements, so this group is giving out 6,000 free meals a day. The sprawling favela of Paraisópolis, home to more than 100,000 residents, is ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — One of the deadliest and least predictable phases in the global coronavirus crisis could begin as innocuously as this: A grandmother and her grandchild walking up a hill. The boy, 9, ...

This post is an aggregation of several stories by Agência Mural. It is published here via a content-sharing partnership between Global Voices and Agência Mural. On December 1, nine people aged between ...