The National Black Consciousness Day is celebrated on November 20 in Brazil, and is dedicated to reflection on the inclusion of blacks in Brazilian society. The week within which is this day is called Black Awareness Week. The date was chosen to coincide with the day of the death of Zumbi dos Palmares, in 1695. The Day of Black Consciousness seeks to be a date to remember the black resistance to slavery in general, since the first transport of Africans to the Brazilian soil (1549).
Posted on: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 22:54:07 +0000