A colossal green stone known as the Bahia Emerald may finally return to Brazil after nearly a decade of litigation in the U.S. Judge Reggie B. Walton, of the U.S. District Court for the District of ...

A U.S. ruling set in motion the gem’s repatriation to Brazil, where it was first unearthed more than 20 years ago. By Alexandra E. Petri Tales have been told for years about the famed 836-pound ...

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and ...