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Sao Paulo, Sep 16 (EFE), (CAMERA: Wallace Carvalho) .- Gymnast Angelo Assumpção, World Cup gold medalist, three-time South American champion and six-time Brazilian champion, decided to denounce the racism he has endured in his club.
Lisbon (Portugal), Feb 17 (EFE), (Camera: Andrea Caballero).- Mamadou Ba arrived in Portugal 23 years ago from Senegal and shortly after got used to receiving threats. Nowadays this activist against racism is at the centre of a political storm that has reopened the wounds of the Portuguese colonial past. SOUNDBITES OF MAMADOU BA, ACTIVIST:"In the past 20 years, it has been some changes, several setbacks but also some achievements. The most important achievements are, in my opinion. Firstly there is a great presence in the public space of Afro-descendants and a more capacity of political vindication...A greater normalisation of the hate speech...There is an MP at the Assembly of the Republic who is clearly racist and this means that while we are reaching important achievements such as the Afro-descendants are complete Portuguese citizens there are also reactionary forces that fight against it."
People protest in Porto Alegre after the death of a Black Brazilian man beaten by white security guards at a supermarket run by the French group Carrefour in the southern city. The incident has sparked outrage across Brazil as the country celebrates Black Consciousness Day. IMAGES
London, Aug 6 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Andy Rain).- Thomas J. Price's latest work, a black woman sculpture, was erected Thursday in London.FOOTAGE OF THE SCULPTURE.
Rio de Janeiro, Feb 11 (EFE).- In 2019 Brazil registered over 200 attacks against Afro-Brazilian religions, such as Umbanda and Candomble, which means an increase of 100% in relation to 2018, according to the Commission for Combating Religious Intolerance (CCIR). Drug traffickers who proclaim themselves as evangelicals are responsible for these attacks as they consider minority religions an affront to their God.(Camera: ALEX MIRKHAN/JANAÍNA QUINET Editor: AYEESHA HOLDER)
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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