“…In the 1970s, Nei Lopes, Antônio Candeia Filho, Martinho da Vila, and Leci Brandão, among other musicians, engaged with aesthetic or intellectual currents related to black emancipation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa. Nevertheless, as I have pointed out elsewhere (Bocskay, 2012; 2017), it is simply untrue that “black causes” were uncommon in Brazil before the 1970s (Fernandes, 2014: 133). Founded by members of the Frente Negra Brasileira, which was dissolved in 1937, only six years after its birth, as Vargas closed down electoral politics (Andrews, 1991: 238), the weekly Afro-Brazilian newspaper from São Paulo A Voz da Raça (The Voice of Race) forged the slogan “Racial Prejudice in Brazil Only We Blacks Can Feel.” Operating from 1933 until 1937, the newspaper published a short manifesto in its inaugural March 1933 issue, titled A Voz da Raça , in which its editors announced that the newspaper “appears at a time in which we need to make known, at present, tomorrow, and always, the interests and communion of the ideas of race, because other newspapers, long-established ones, out of political disdain, have abandoned such interests.”…”