RECIFE (AFP) - Hundreds of Brazilians marched on Friday (June 5) over the death of a black boy whose mother, a maid, had entrusted him to her white employer, in an echo of the protests racking the United States.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
RECIFE, BRAZIL - Hundreds of Brazilians marched on Friday over the death of a black boy whose mother, a maid, entrusted to her white employer, in an echo of the protests racking the United States.
Security camera footage played on Brazilian TV shows the white employer interacting with the boy as he stands inside the service elevator, then pushing the button for the top floor and leaving him inside alone. "Vidas negras importam" -"Black lives matter" - said signs carried by protesters in Recife, the capital of the north-eastern state of Pernambuco.
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