Celebrating the Power of Julho das Pretas (Black Women’s July) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Alane Reis, Program Coordinator at Odara-Instituto da Mulher Negra, at Julho das Pretas (Black Women’s March) at Praça da Piedade in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. July 25, 2025. Photo by Sedrick Miles.

By Black Women Radicals

Photos by Sedrick Miles

Black Women Radicals is in solidarity with Black Brazilian women’s long-standing, collective, and ongoing struggle for human rights.

On Friday, July 25th, 2025, Black Women Radicals attended Julho das Pretas (Black Women’s July) March in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Created in 2013 by Odara-Instituto da Mulher Negra(Odara-Institute of Black Women), Julhos das Pretas is a political advocacy initiative and joint agenda with Black women’s organizations and movements in Brazil, focused on strengthening the collective and autonomous political action of Black women in various spheres of society. The initiative celebrates the International Afro-Latina, Afro-Caribbean, and Diaspora Women’s Day, which takes place annually on July 25th. Moreover, Julho das Pretas centers important and necessary themes related to overcoming gender and racial inequalities and emphasizing the political agenda of Black women in Brazil.

This year’s Julhos das Pretas was a call-to-action for the upcoming Marcha das Mulheres Negras (2nd National Black Women’s March for Reparation and Well-Being), which will take place on November 25th, 2025 in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. The Black Women’s March is a movement built by Black women from all over Brazil, from different generations and social contexts. In 2015, the first edition of Marcha das Mulheres Negras took place in Brasília, where more than 100,000 Black women marched against racism, violence, and for a good living, a historic process that impacted and defined the direction of the political organization of Black women in Brazil and Latin America.

Ten years later, Black women from all over Brazil and around the world will come together to march for a future where good living and reparation is a reality for all, and not some.

Black Women Radicals is proud to serve on the International Committee for the 2nd Black Women’s March and is in solidarity with Black Brazilian women’s long-standing, collective, and ongoing struggle for human rights, social justice, and equity.

For more information about Marcha das Mulheres Negras, please visit here: https://marchadasmulheresnegras.com.br/