Yesterday, sport360.com gave us a nice story on the CDO Capoeira Center in Dubai and its instructor, Fernando Dias de Luz:

“I always say, capoeira is for everyone, but not everyone is for capoeira. All people can come and do it, but they should be open to learning different things,” he said. “It’s the only martial art that involves music and acrobatics. So people should be open to learning a different culture as well. It’s not just another sport, it’s more than a sport. Capoeira helps you with…

Megan Livingston, writing for ESPN platform The Undefeated:

Historian Matthias Röhrig Assunção’s book, Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art, describes capoeira as “the black art of the male underdog” and “a model of counter-hegemonic practice.” It doesn’t feel premature to assert that capoeira and Ali have a lot in common.

Ali is the capoeira of boxing. He is the dununba of the ring; the dance of the strong man in the flesh.

Curbed.com on The Struggle to Build a Proper Monument to Slavery in Rio, particularly at Rio’s Valongo Wharf:

Built in 1811, the Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro has been buried many times throughout its history. One of the largest slave ports in the Americas, the area served as the entryway for more than half a million Africans held in bondage. It was literally covered up in 1843, when the bride of Brazil’s Portuguese emperor was set to arrive for a grand wedding, and then slowly covered with…

More information has come to light about Mestre Gigante and his recent death on Monday, May 30, 2016, at the age of 95.

The New Haven Register did a nice story on Mestre Efraim Silva’s high school graduation—at 52 years old.

Silva, owner of Connecticut Capoeira and Dance Center, 1175 State St., quit high school in his native Brazil at 17 to pursue his passion for teaching capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art that requires quick, complex, acrobatic moves.