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Aleixo Joaquim da Silva, 50, recounts an incident in a Copacabana neighborhood where he was discriminated against by a white woman. da Silva's only part of a growing movement in Brazil, a country of 190 million people -- it has the world's second-largest black population, behind Nigeria -- to turn back centuries of pervasive and largely unchallenged racism. Carl Juste/Miami Herald
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Ivete Sacramento, who became Brazil's first black president of a major university in 1998, said she's saddened every day when she looks out the balcony of her upper middle-class apartment at the sprawling slum that sits just a few dozen yards away.
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Galleries, restaurants, bars, and boutiques have moved in along with European investors. A man gets his hair braided outside a gallery.
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A young girl is ushered past a man begging for change outside the historic Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosario dos Pretos. Many squatters have taken residence in historic Salvador where buildings were left abandoned until wealthy European started renovating them causing a revival of the area.
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A young man makes the hand gesture of a bird as a sign of freedom and peace. A group of sixteen violent offenders are detained in a dark cell meant for four as they wait to be transported to a larger and more protective facility. The crime rate among Brazil's poor has caused over crowding in its prison system.
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