(27 Jul 2025)
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 27 July 2025
1. Various of women marching and playing drums and dancing at the Marcha das Mulheres Negras do Rio de Janeiro (Black Women’s March of Rio de Janeiro)
2. Various of people chanting as they hold a giant banner reading (Portuguese) “Forum Estadual das Mulheres Negras do Rio de Janeiro” (Rio de Janeiro State Forum of Black Women)
3. Black Activist Monica Santos (wearing black pants) posing to pictures next to other activists
4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mônica Santos, Activist of Social Inequality, 53-year-old:
"The law says that racism is a crime, and this march today is of utmost importance for us to show our strength, our resilience, and our resistance against structural racism and institutional racism. Because we are not respected simply because of the color of our skin."
5. Women holding a banner reading (Portuguese) “Fight as a Black mother”
6. Women marching holding a banner reading (Portuguese) “Black women against Trump, Bolsonaro and the extreme right wing”
7. Placard reading (Portuguese) “Trump and Bolsonaro, enemies of Brazil
8. Women marching holding a banner reading (Portuguese) "Black women in resistance"
9. Women pointing to a sticker stuck to her cloth reading (Portuguese) “"Strength, resilience, and fight"
10. Mônica Cunha Co-founder of the Black Movement ‘Moleque’ talking to other activists
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mônica Cunha, 59-year-old, Co-founder of the Black Movement ‘Moleque’:
"As long as there is racism, there will be no democracy. So, this march is to say, ‘Racism still exists,’ but we continue to march, to fight for dignity, for a good life, and for reparations."
12. Various of people marching and dancing
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of Black women marched Sunday along the Copacabana beachfront in Rio de Janeiro to denounce structural racism, demand justice, and call for reparations for Black people.
The group chanted slogans and danced while carrying banners that read “Fight like a Black mother” and “Black women in resistance.”
"The law says that racism is a crime, and this march today is of utmost importance for us to show our strength, our resilience,” said activist Mônica Santos, 53.
Signs also criticized right-wing leaders with messages like “Trump and Bolsonaro, enemies of Brazil.”
"As long as there is racism, there will be no democracy,” said Mônica Cunha, founder of the Moleque movement. “We continue to march, to fight for dignity, for a good life, and for reparations."
According to Brazil’s Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Black women represent 66% of femicide victims in Brazil and face the greatest inequalities in income and access to rights.
The march was organized by the Rio de Janeiro State Forum of Black Women and serves as preparation for the national march that will take place in Brasília in November during the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
AP Video: Diarlei Rodrigues
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