MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) – Carlos Paez Vilaro, a self-trained painter, sculptor, screenwriter, musician and architect who championed Afro-Uruguayan Candombe music and dance, created colorful murals in ...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — Carlos Paez Vilaro, a self-trained painter, sculptor, screenwriter, musician and architect who championed Afro-Uruguayan Candombe music and dance, created colorful murals in ...

MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguay's black community, long in the shadows of the country's cultural and political mainstream, is enjoying an awakening as its African roots are celebrated in a pulsating ...

Although the United States had only a short-lived involvement of the slave trade in Uruguay from 1797-1809, they took advantage of the hideous enterprise and served as a flagship for many clandestine ...

Visitor’s to Montevideo’s Barrio Sur neighborhood won’t want to miss Central Cemetery, the final resting place of many famous Uruguayans, or the chance to hear distinctive candombe music. Among many ...

At first glance of the Spanish word, its meaning seems unmistakeable. “Negrito.” The word is discriminatory and racist, a demeaning slur directed to Black people and one that should be wholly ...

This Nov. 15, 2006 photo shows a partial view of Casapueblo taken in Punta Ballena, Uruguay, where artist Carlos Paez Vilaro died early Monday, Feb. 24, 2013. Paez was a self-trained painter, sculptor ...

Carlos Paez Vilaro, a self-trained painter, sculptor, screenwriter, musician and architect who championed Afro-Uruguayan Candombe music and dance, created colorful murals in dozens of cities around ...