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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the new Rota do Samba, musicians tell stories through song. Photograph by Dan Stables This article was produced by National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portland Pride 2026 filled downtown with roaring motorcycles, samba bands and rainbow-waving paradegoers Sunday morning. Dykes on ...

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Monday nights feel like Saturdays in Rio’s Little Africa neighborhood when the sun sets and the samba starts to play. Surrounded by a mostly young crowd, seven musicians sit around a table with the ...

Retired biology teacher Dean Jernigan directs the We’re Not Dead Yet MissionSquare Meerkat Samba Band. The MissionSquare Retirement community is now home to a samba band orchestrated by a retired ...

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This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). In the shuffling rhythms of samba, in its defiance and energy and lust for life, lies the soul of Rio de Janeiro. Samba is heard ...