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Feb 15, 2025 | 
animeherald.com | Gabriel Leão
In February 2024, Academy Award-winning actress and producer Viola Davis, along with husband and business partner Julius Tennon, announced that through their banner, JuVee Productions, they’re partnering up with N LITE, a Black and Japanese-led media company, to produce anime and animated films focusing on Black and Afro-Indigenous narratives.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
aljazeera.com | Gabriel Leão
Gabriel Leão is a journalist based in São Paulo, Brazil. Last year was disastrous for the environment and climate change action. United Nations-backed talks to tackle biodiversity, plastic pollution desertification and climate change either collapsed or produced grossly inadequate agreements. The re-election of Donald Trump for another term in the United States signalled that the pushback against climate action would only intensify.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
qoshe.com | Gabriel Leão
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
animeherald.com | Gabriel Leão
Overcoming insatiable urges to snack. Tracking minute changes in cardiovascular prowess and celebrating muscle development with friends — all these moments and more make Hibiki Sakura and the culture at the Silverman Gym feel like something out of real life. How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? (ダンベル何キロ持てる, 2016 -) by Yabako Sandrovich may be classified as a shonen title, but it sets itself apart from other shows of its ilk by following the physical training of neither martial artists, nor men.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Angela Watercutter |Gabriel Leão
Tech News Tube is a real time news feed of the latest technology news headlines.Follow all of the top tech sites in one place, on the web or your mobile device.
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May 18, 2024 | 
animeherald.com | Gabriel Leão |Samantha Ferreira
In 2023, the gothic world of Castlevania returned to televisions around the world, with an all-new entry into the series’ animated universe. Castlevania: Nocturne, an anime-inspired series by Frederator and Powerhouse Animation, took viewers away from the times of Trevor, Sypha, and Alucard to focus on Richter Belmont and an all-new main character. Specifically, Nocturne introduced Annette, an Afro-Caribbean witch and former slave, who serves as an important step forward in Black representation.
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May 7, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Gabriel Leão
Populism is an intrinsic part of Latin American politics. It has already reached American shores through former president and once again candidate Donald Trump. Still, populism seems to have reached a new level in the 21st century in Venezuela, ruled with an iron grip by Nicolás Maduro, who has "inherited" it from the controversial leader Hugo Chávez.
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May 1, 2024 | 
dicebreaker.com | Gabriel Leão
There is a global collective image of Brazil that imagines the nation in stereotypical ways - from a constellation of dilapidated favelas in its cities or the starkly contrasted verdant bounty of the Indigenous-inhabited Amazon rainforest to the glory of its five-time FIFA World Cup-winning national football team. Yet Brazil is more than these things.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
bigpicturefilmclub.com | Gabriel Leão
One of the earliest moments of the sophomore season of ‘Tokyo Vice’ (2022 – ) has detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe) entering a dim-lighted hotel room, where fellow detective Jin Miyamoto (Hideaki Itô) lies dead with a needle piercing his arm, indicating a death by heroin overdose, all a ruse by the yakuza. “The yakuza are adept at staging a murder to look like a suicide.
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Feb 4, 2024 | 
newsweek.com | Gabriel Leão
We are months past the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict. While Brazil is busy gearing up for Carnival, the prejudice felt in Brazil by Israelis, Palestinians, Arabs, and a host of others is present, insidious, and lingering. Brazil houses affluent Jewish and Arab communities and is a country known for receiving immigrants and refugees from many parts of the world. Yet, it holds a dark place in its heart with the poison of prejudice.
