Glória Maria Matta da Silva (born August 15, 1949) is a Brazilian journalist, reporter, and television host.
Gloria grew up in a low-income household in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, with her father working as a tailor and her mother, a housewife. She was taught values of cleanliness and accountability.
Gloria lived with her grandmother after her parents divorced. Gloria's grandmother told her stories about her great-grandfather who was hanged in the mountains of Minas Gerais state. Daughter of a slave mother, her grandmother was also a beneficiary of the 1871 Law of Free Birth and, thus, born free. Her grandmother taught her that she needed to work to be free and Gloria decided to focus on combatting racial prejudice.

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