This research has as theme the communication produced by Agência de Notícias Jovens Comunicadores da Amazônia (Agência JCA), a space of mobilization in defense of black youth in the Metropolitan Region of Belém, Pará, through alternative communication. The question-problem that guides this study is: How are the alternative communicative practices
of Agência de Notícias Jovens Comunicadores da Amazônia in defense of black youth from Belém? The general objective of this research is to understand how the alternative communication dynamics of Agência JCA are constituted, in the exercise of alternative communication. The specific objectives are to a) identify how the Agência de Notícias Jovens
Comunicadores da Amazônia is set up, with the communicative and educommunicative evidence present as a central feature; b) understand how the extermination of black youth from the periphery presents itself as a problem before the Agência JCA; c) investigate and analyze the communication strategies carried out by Agência JCA and their contribution in defense of young blacks living in peripheral areas of the Metropolitan Region of Belém. The methodology used is based on bibliographic research; conducting individual semi-structured
interviews with young people who participated / participate in the media and project coordinators. In addition, participant observation was also carried out in activities promoted by the Agência JCA. The theoretical foundation of this study included discussions about alternative communication (Peruzzo, 2008; 2009; among others; AMORIM et al, 2015), educommunication (Soares, 2011; 2002), youth (PAIS, 1990; DAYRELL, 2003) and extermination black youth (NASCIMENTO, 1978; MUNANGA, 2003; ALMEIDA, 2018; GOMES E LABORNE, 2018). We believe that Agência JCA develops through it is critical reflective alternative content about the youths and peripheries of Belém and its actividies, ways of mobilizing, raising awareness and fighting against the extermination of black youths in Belém and also the expansion of citizenship rights, thus constituting itself as an important articulation in defense of the black youths of Belém do Pará.
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