Black love as a cultural icon
Black and Afro-Latino love as a cultural icon: musical, historical and contemporary couples from the Caribbean, Brazil and the diaspora who wrote their own romantic mythology.
"Mi negro lindo": 41 years of sugar
The Queen of Salsa and her trumpeter Pedro Knight, married 41 years until her death; he gave up his career to be her director, manager and protector — her "negro lindo."
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Partners in the dream
The civil-rights leader and Coretta Scott, singer and activist: a partnership of love and struggle. After Martin's 1968 assassination, she devoted her life to guarding his legacy.
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Brazil's saddest sonnet
Brazil's greatest writer — mixed-race and grandson of freed slaves — and Carolina, his Portuguese wife: 35 years of marriage whose end inspired "A Carolina," one of the most celebrated love sonnets in the Portuguese language.
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Fifty-six years of love and struggle
The Black actor-activist couple married for 56 years, friends of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, and a benchmark of Black American love and commitment.
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They loved and fought for freedom
The leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares, the great refuge of self-liberated enslaved people in Brazil: warriors and lovers who resisted the slave empire side by side.
Read the storyThe samba reborn by love
The great poet of samba, founder of the Mangueira school, and Eusébia "Dona Zica," the cook who had loved him since youth: they reunited as mature widowers, and she pulled him out of obscurity and drink to give him back his song.
Read the storyBecause it has been systematically under-told in the great love canons. It is a priority expansion pillar of the archive, with an Afro-Latino, Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean emphasis.