‘It’s deeper than slavery’: Lisbon street project reclaims Portugal’s unseen black history
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Plaques in city now mark the places where its African community has lived, worked and transformed the cityIt takes just a short stroll around Lisbon’s Sâo Domingos church to get a sense of its centuries-long history; a monument bearing the Star of David commemorates the thousands of Jews killed by a mob in 1506, while the church’s scorched pillars hint at the 1959 fire that ravaged its interior, laying waste its gilded woodcarvings.What has long remained hidden from view, however, is the...

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