Brazil's Celebrity-Activist: The Megastar Actor Putting Race Center Stage

For the Brazilian version of The Mountaintop, an American play that imagines Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night, actor-director Lázaro Ramos, 38, added a line from contemporary politics. During a monologue he delivers on race relations, Ramos, playing Dr. King, quotes an activist from Brazil’s anti-police-violence movement React or Be Killed: “In this country, Black […]