Lack of blacks on Brazil's catwalks prompts protest

Brazil's top catwalk shows to be held next month could be disrupted by a rogue fashion event featuring only black models unless a perceived racial bias towards whites is overturned, a black advocacy group warned Tuesday. "We will hold a black Sao Paulo fashion week in the street right in front of the Sao Paulo Fashion Week" unless the demand is met, David Santos, of the Educafro group, told AFP. He was speaking at a demonstration in central Sao Paulo late Tuesday in which black children and youths paraded
down a cathedral's steps in an anti-discrimination protest in front of a crowd of 500 people.