Projeto Querino is a Brazilian journalistic project launched on August 6, 2022 as a narrative podcast produced by Rádio Novelo (the leading producer of journalistic podcasts in Brazil) and a series of pieces in piauí Magazine (one of the country’s most respected long-form monthlies). The podcast won Brazil’s main journalistic award, the Vladimir Herzog (2023), and was named one of the 10 best audio journalistic works of 2022 by Premio Gabo.
The initiative drew inspiration from the “1619 Project,” created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and launched in August 2019 by The New York Times Magazine. 

Projeto Querino brings an Afro-centered gaze to bear on Brazilian history, revisiting a handful of key moments (such as the declaration of independence, in 1822, and the abolition of slavery, in 1888) from the perspective of Africans and their descendants. The project was created and is coordinated by journalist Tiago Rogero; has support from Ibirapitanga Institute; History consultancy by Ynaê Lopes dos Santos and narrative consultancy by Paula Scarpin and Flora Thomson-DeVeaux, from Rádio Novelo. 

In all, more than 40 professionals (a majority-Black team) worked on the project from start to finish. Work kicked off in 2020 with 12 months of bibliographical and audiovisual research conducted by  historians and journalists.