Brazil, facing calls for reparations, wrangles with its painful legacy of slavery ...Middle East

By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil has finally started hearing very public demands for reparations for its role in slavery. Brazil received more slaves from Africa than any other place did. But the country has struggled to have meaningful conversations about its past. Until now. One of the biggest examples: prosecutors’ civil inquiry into the state-owned Bank of Brazil, which is one of Latin America’s biggest financial institutions by assets. That’s due to its historic ties to the transatlantic slave trade, and to slavery itself. Activists and experts argue that confronting Brazil’s past is a crucial step toward more equality today. The post Brazil, facing c

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