Brazil once touted itself as free of racism. It turns out that the truth was more complicated -- a lot more complicated. In his new PBS series, The Root's editor-in-chief, Henry Louis Gates, examines the complexities of race and color in Brazil, the country with the second-largest number of people of African descent in the world after Nigeria -- far more than the United States. Says Gates, "I knew how barbaric slavery was in the United States, but it was even worse in Brazil."
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