Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2019, artists and activists took advantage of the 2019 Carnival to ask for justice for the Afro-Brazilian councilor Marielle Franco, murdered in March 2018. Amid social protests and growing fear about the ...See moreRio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2019, artists and activists took advantage of the 2019 Carnival to ask for justice for the Afro-Brazilian councilor Marielle Franco, murdered in March 2018. Amid social protests and growing fear about the far-right government de Jair Bolsonaro, Rio de Janeiro has become an active site of resistance and memorialization of Franco's legacy. Black women and lesbian activists invest in the city to ask "who ordered the murder of Marielle Franco?"
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