BLACK WOMEN YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER

True warriors who broke important racist, sexist and discriminatory barriers, breaking paradigms that today guarantee a fairer world for all and future generations.

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FOREVER IN OUR MEMORY

Testimonials from the Cultne Collection with a range of female personalities from the black movement, in the areas of music, fashion, culture, religion and politics. An audiovisual immersion in a great legacy of ancestral wisdom.

Lélia GonzalezCultne

Lélia Gonzales

"Let's fight, comrades, so that oppression and exploitation end in this country. In order that, in addition to being a racial democracy, to be effective, this country has to be a racial democracy.” (1988)

Speech by Lélia Gonzalez in The Black March - 1988Cultne

In the year of the Centenary of Abolition in 1988, several activists and artists gave testimony about the Negro and Publicity, From the collection of: Cultne
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Interview for the documentary "The Black Divas of Brazilian Cinema"., From the collection of: Cultne
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Interview by Lélia Gonzalez granted at her residence to Enúgbarijo Comunicações., From the collection of: Cultne
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Beatriz NascimentoCultne

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Beatriz Nascimento

“I always want to be ready, until the end of my life. As long as racism exists, I want to fight racism. I set out to do this when I was 20, 25 years old. Now I'm 45 years old, I'm more and more wanting to fight against racism. (1987)

Event "Week of Decolonization and Black Contemporaneity" held on July 19, 1987, From the collection of: Cultne
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Interview recorded after the Black Movement March in 1988, From the collection of: Cultne
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Historian Raquel Barreto talks about the legacy of Beatriz Nascimento during the Ori Festival, From the collection of: Cultne
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Ruth de SouzaCultne

Ruth de Souza

“Imagine the blacks, for the first time at Theatro Municipal, which, until then, were just French companies and great international operas. And we were the first group of blacks to enter the Municipality. I debuted there”. (1989)

Black Divas in Cinema - 1989Cultne

100 Years of Abolition in Brazil - 1988, From the collection of: Cultne
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Tribute to Ruth de Souza, From the collection of: Cultne
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Live Zombie Event, From the collection of: Cultne
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Jurema BatistaCultne

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Jurema Batista

“We fought for this date to exist. At our school we learn about Princess Isabel. Getting zombies out of the basement of Brazilian history was our struggle. That slavery did not take away from the black people, the taste for freedom!” (2010)

Testimony on the 20th of November at the Monument to Zumbi dos Palmares in Praça Onze, in Rio de Janeiro., From the collection of: Cultne
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Investiture of the first board of CEMUFEP - Center for Women in Favela and Periphery (1985), From the collection of: Cultne
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I IPCN Membership Meeting on September 12, 1987, From the collection of: Cultne
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Zezé MottaCultne

Zezé Motta

"The black woman's relationship with life is that of a warrior. She is oppressed as a black woman, oppressed as a woman, but we are there in the struggle and despite the oppression, we can become victorious." (1988)

100 Years of Abolition in Brazil - 1988, From the collection of: Cultne
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Singing with Emílio Santiago at Usafricarib - 2012, From the collection of: Cultne
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FESPAC Brazil - 1987, From the collection of: Cultne
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Adélia AzevedoCultne

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Adélia Azevedo

“For us black people, something very important is the word, orality. Today I am a storyteller, within art therapy, because I learned, inside my house, with my grandparents, with my parents, that the word is the most important”. (2016)

Interview on Cultne on TV, From the collection of: Cultne
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Black Movement Militants - 1987, From the collection of: Cultne
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"We are all Claudia" protest, From the collection of: Cultne
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Luiza BarrosCultne

Luiza Bairros

“Feminism is a much deeper thing than we even imagine. And it necessarily has to be accompanied by our awakening to a series of issues that, before, we could not see.” (1985)

8th Latin American and Caribbean Feminist EncounterCultne

Launch of the National Journalist Award Abdias Nascimento, From the collection of: Cultne
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National Meeting of Black Women, From the collection of: Cultne
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Thereza SantosCultne

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Thereza Santos

“In addition to being this family base, this support of the black man, the black woman is already thinking, planning and executing. It has always been an economic and moral mainstay of the struggle.” (1989)

Brazilian Black Front - 1985, From the collection of: Cultne
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Interview with Teresa Santos, From the collection of: Cultne
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Léa GarciaCultne

Léa Garcia

“We have a lot to conquer and fight for, that's why. It is like? Having the power in our hands, if we don't have the power in our hands, we won't achieve anything. We have to be an equal, not just the white man, withholding power and manipulating us.” (1989)

Black Divas in Cinema - 1989Cultne

Interview with Lea Garcia, From the collection of: Cultne
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Lecture Black Woman in Cinema - 2010, From the collection of: Cultne
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Afrodai - Idalice Moreira BastosCultne

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Idalice Moreira Bastos

“Even the televisions cut out. They have no interest in showing our beauty, they put it in our heads, all our lives, that black people are ugly. In addition to physical beauty, we have wonderful energy.” (1988)

AfroDai at Radial Filo, From the collection of: Cultne
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The black diva, From the collection of: Cultne
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Tribute to Idalice Moreira Bastos - AfroDai, From the collection of: Cultne
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Nilma LinoCultne

Nilma Lino

“Fighting for democratic resumption is also fighting for the resumption of racial equality policies, it is fighting racism”. (2018)

Post-Abolition Stories - UFMG, From the collection of: Cultne
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Black Media - Minister Nilma Lino, From the collection of: Cultne
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VIII March of the Black Women (Date)Cultne

VIII March of the Black Women

For life, rights, dignity and for a fair and anti-racist society. More black women in power! The march took place on July 31, 2022 on Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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