RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Samba and literature rarely share the same stage, but at this year's Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, two samba schools used their parades to tell the stories of Black Brazilian ...

Dozens of people gathered Saturday night at the Haile Village Center to connect with Brazilian culture through food and drumming by Bloco GNV at a Carnaval event hosted by Samba Brazilian Kitchen.

From the bottom of her platform heels to the top of her 15-kilogram headpiece, samba dancer Mishel Finlayson says she is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Casa de Francisca Musicians at Casa de Francisca, in São Paulo, Brazil. One afternoon in 1962, lyricist Vinícius de Moraes and ...

Beth Carvalho, a singer and songwriter known in Brazil as the “godmother of samba,” died April 30 in Rio de Janeiro. She was 72. In a career that lasted more than 50 years and regularly brought her ...

The upcoming visit of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is a carefully choreographed diplomacy, a Samba-meets-strategy moment when India and Brazil will try to coordinate their trade dance ...