The Daily Texan on how Capoeira helps female students, alumni find self-empowerment:

UT alumna Quentishia Guy was introduced to capoeira when she was studying abroad in Rio de Janeiro. Most of the members in her local training center, Capoeira Evoluçao, are male. But even though she was one of the few girls in her class, her instructor convinced her to stay in 2013 despite the added challenge.

The Brazilian who brings capoeira to Bucharest, from Romanian-Insider.com:

In 2008, Minhoca, then a man in his ‘20s, with strong arms and some hardly visible scars on his face from the days when capoeira was raw and aggressive, but with a soft voice, came to a Bulgarian resort on a two-year contract. He performed in a show combining capoeira elements with other dance elements originating from Africa. During his stay in Bulgaria, he met a Romanian guy who said that he would help him start a…

Mestre Ombrinho of New York City’s Capoeira Angola Quintal was recently honored with the Lower East Side Community Leadership Award, as covered by Lindsey Ellefson for the Lo-Down:

“I feel there’s lots of times people don’t get awards for their service and I’m lucky this time,” he said. “I’ve been doing this work for a long, long time.”

Mercury News, a San Jose, California paper, recently covered Capoeira of San Jose in an article titled, Brazilian martial art demonstration draws crowd to Milpitas Public Library:

The free hour-long performance in the auditorium, part of the library’s Summer Reading Challenge program, included songs in Portuguese and music created on instruments with origins in Brazil, such as the berimbau, a one-string, bow-like string instrument. Familiar instruments included a drum and a tambourine.

A far-flung, exotic location for westerners and half a world away from its roots in Brazil, the island of Borneo features Capoeira Club MSC Tabuan Jaya in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.