{"id":25929,"date":"2012-10-11T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25929"},"modified":"2012-10-11T02:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T02:00:35","slug":"barbosa-made-brazils-first-black-supreme-court-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25929","title":{"rendered":"Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

BBC News<\/a>
\n2012-10-10<\/p>\n

The judge overseeing a major corruption trial in Brazil has been appointed president of the Supreme Court, the first black person to hold the post.<\/em><\/p>\n

Judge Joaquim Barbosa<\/a>, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence.<\/p>\n

He will take over the post once the “Mensalao” corruption trial ends.<\/p>\n

Brazil has the largest black population after Nigeria, many of them descendants of African slaves, but black people rarely achieve high office.<\/p>\n

Judge Barbosa, who is 58, has been appointed by other judges, following the Court’s tradition of nominating its most senior member…<\/p>\n

…In 2003, he became a household name in Brazil when he was appointed by then President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva<\/a> to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Two mixed-race judges had previously been members of the court, but Mr Barbosa said he was the first one who could be “widely recognised as a black man”.<\/p>\n

“This act has great significance, as it indicates to society the end of certain visible and invisible barriers,” he said at the time…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader BBC News 2012-10-10 The judge overseeing a major corruption trial in Brazil has been appointed president of the Supreme Court, the first black person to hold the post. Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence. He will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,1467,6],"tags":[8597,12407,7012],"class_list":["post-25929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-law","category-new-media","tag-bbc-news","tag-joaquim-barbosa","tag-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}