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

Lucas Pinheiro Braathen used to ski for Norway before switching to Brazil, the land of his mother Lucas Pinheiro Braathen made history for Brazil by clinching his nation's first Winter Olympic medal ...

Brazil has long reigned supreme in the World Cup and Summer Olympics under the banner of the "Samba Army," but it has had no presence in the Winter Olympics. This is unsurprising, as Brazil is a ...

For the first time since the Cuban conga (1938), it looks as though the U.S. is taking up a new ballroom dance. The new dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — 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 female ...

In the heart of Lagos Island, the Fanti Carnival rose like a phoenix—bold, rhythmic and unapologetically Afro-Brazilian. After years of silence, it returned not just as celebration, but as resistance.