Previous White Candidates Find that Running for Office as Black Pays Off in Brazil
(World News Brazil)

Number of black candidates increases dramatically – Marcello Casal Jr/ABr Brazil is undergoing a strange racial reckoning after bombshell revelations that thousands of veteran politicians had changed their self-identified race between the 2016 and 2020 elections. Afro-Brazilians – a category that includes Black and mixed-race people – comprise 56% of Brazil’s population but 43% of elected officials. So when almost 29,000 Afro-Brazilian city council and mayoral candidates took office on January 1 after winning their races last November, communities of color celebrated their growing political representation. But Brazilian politics may not be as diverse as official statistics...