{"id":32227,"date":"2013-07-11T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T01:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32227"},"modified":"2013-07-11T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T01:04:09","slug":"brazilians-of-african-descent-demand-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32227","title":{"rendered":"Brazilians of African descent demand equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/video\/americas\/2013\/07\/201372781228283.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilians of African descent demand equality<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera English<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel Levin<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBrazil is one of the most socially unequal countries in the world, we\u2019re selling the image that everything is good and we\u2019ll host the World Cup but it\u2019s a country that denies opportunity to its own people.\u201d \u2014Lais Nascimento, student<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Eighty percent of Brazilians are originally from Africa and they say they suffer discrimination<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of Brazilians are renewing the decades-old struggle for racial equality, and are staging protests to draw attention to their grievances.<\/p>\n<p>Eighty percent of Brazilians are of African descent and they say they suffer discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Rachel Levin has this report from Salvador.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8-zo8lyOAs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilians of African descent demand equality Al Jazeera English 2013-07-02 Rachel Levin \u201cBrazil is one of the most socially unequal countries in the world, we\u2019re selling the image that everything is good and we\u2019ll host the World Cup but it\u2019s a country that denies opportunity to its own people.\u201d \u2014Lais Nascimento, student Eighty percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,8,26,842],"tags":[15148,15147,15146,15145],"class_list":["post-32227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-videos","tag-al-jazeera-english","tag-fabio-lima","tag-lais-nascimento","tag-salvador"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32227","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=32227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}