Maria Gorete Pereira Gonzaga, Individual Project, Piauí State
The Color of Brazil: Debate with Black Youth on Radio Web
Piauí
Journalist Maria Gorete Pereira Gonzaga won the Palmares Communication Award for 2005 – Category Radio, held by the Palmares Cultural Foundation/Ministry of Culture and the University of Brasilia Foundation, for her project The Color of Brazil: Debate with Black Youth on Radio Web (http://br.video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1875820).
The Project
The journalist’s proposal is to produce and publicize information through an Internet radio program that mobilizes and trains youth, especially African descendents, to become aware of the struggle for social inclusion, as facilitators for building a society with solidarity, promoting respect for human rights, equity, diversity, and social peace.
As she explains, the Atlas of Social Exclusion in Piauí shows that this State of Brazil has one of the country’s highest rates of social exclusion. Piauí is Brazil’s second poorest State and has a predominantly young population.
As the journalist further explains, African descendents make up 47.3% of the Brazilian population. This important population segment has been disproportionately victimized by various forms of violence, exposed to poverty and exclusion. In Teresina, capital of Piauí State, African descendents make up a major portion of the population in the slums and row-house tenements.
In addition to inherent youth issues, young African descendents face the consequences of racial prejudice and discrimination.
With Radio Web, the challenge is provide backing, disseminate information and knowledge, and contribute to mobilization and social intervention to prevent the perpetuation of such injustices in future generations.
The project “The Color of Brazil” is an initiative to strengthen African Brazilian historical and socio-cultural characteristics and guarantee the multiplication of knowledge, social promotion, and race and gender equity and diversity through the World Wide Web, thereby combating apathy and social exclusion among Black youth.
In the radio programs, audience participation will be valued and facilitated in various ways and at different opportunities. A team of volunteers will be formed through awareness-raising events and qualification of the various stages in the production of Internet community radio programs.
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Annual Call for Proposals
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Main Themes
Confronting racism