Brazil · Culture
Key Facts
—The event: Feira Preta, billed as Latin America’s largest festival of Black culture and entrepreneurship, ran May 29-31 at Rio de Janeiro’s Pier Mauá.
—The return: It was the festival’s first edition in Rio in about a decade, staged in the historic Pequena África district, with free admission and roughly 60,000 visitors expected.
—The founder: Adriana Barbosa, who started the fair as a small São Paulo street market in 2002 and now runs the PretaHub social-enterprise platform.
