Brazilian magazine highlights violence against black youth
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The Revista Tição, a publication from the Black community in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, released a September issue focusing on the alarming rates of violence and killings of Black youth.
Launched in 1978 during the military dictatorship as a means of fighting racism and police brutality, the magazine has been revived to continue its denunciation of injustice and demand respect.
Editors Emílio Chagas and Jeanice Dias Ramos point to structural racism, police lethality, social exclusion, and a lack of public policies as key causes of this violence, referencing reports from IPEA and the Brazilian Public Security Forum. The magazine explores the concept of “necropolitics”, the power to decide who lives and who dies, as described by philosopher Achille Mbembe, and argues that modern power operates through the management and production of death.
Revista Tição resumed publication in November 2025, with a renewed focus on the leadership and entrepreneurship of Black women. Eight pages of the current issue give voice to community members expressing their concerns about the violence and strategies for addressing it. Judge Karen Luise Vilanova Batista de Souza emphasizes the need for evidence, planning, funding, social participation, and a commitment to material equality to combat the violence.
The publication also features articles on antiracist education, the history of Slam poetry in Brazil (which originated in Chicago in the 1980s), and the pioneering work of the Latin American Hip Hop Museum, which receives 30,000 visitors annually.
