Brazilians have followed reports on recent incidents in the United States regarding police militarization, racial profiling and killings of black men by police with particular interest. Many Brazilian observers lament that whereas incidents in the US have sparked major protests, similar events in Brazil are so commonplace that they rarely provoke public response. This session will offer a comparative perspective on the conditions that sparked the Black Lives Matter mobilization in the United States. We will trace the parallels and divergences in the history of race as well as the relationship between counter-terrorism and police militarization in Brazil and the United States. Our goal is to understand the different responses to racism and injustice in the two nations and consider whether there are lessons we could learn from one another. The session will be led by Sueann Caulfield (Faculty, STP Program, RC) and two undergraduate students from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UniRio) Danilo Cunha de Jesus dos Santos and Igor Cavalcante Medina.