Article 5CZAC Emicida, a rapper on a mission to recover Brazil's black history

Emicida, a rapper on a mission to recover Brazil's black history

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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
from World news | The Guardian on (#5CZAC)

Musician and maker of heroic' Netflix documentary warns his country is on a dangerous path

When the black Brazilian rapper Emicida imagines his country's whitewashed history, he sees a textbook missing a succession of key pages.

In his songs and on stage, the Sao Paulo-born musician tries to correct that skewed telling, remembering the lives and times of black Brazilian academics, artists and activists in the hope of changing Brazil's future.

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