For four decades, the USA has officially celebrated Black History Month, but efforts to honor African American history in ...

Congress passes the first Fugi­tive Slave Law. The law made it easier for a slave owner to re-take control of a slave who had ...

Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed and tens of thousands are slaughtered. 1542: Catherine ...

The burden that Patrice Lumumba, prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, assumed was an awesome one. On his young, slim ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Wartburg College's Opera Workshop and Wartburg Players will perform 'A Little Night Music' by Stephen Sondheim on Friday and ...

The 2025 crop of Oscar nominated doc features all tackle urgent and timely international stories that resonate in today's ...

The 7th edition of the Joburg Film Festival in partnership with MultiChoice Group, is set to kick off next month, featuring the world premiere of the highly-anticipated documentary Ernest Cole: Lost ...

The United Nations has 14,000 of its blue helmet soldiers in the Kivu region, and this past December, 14 blue helmets were killed. The countries that make up the Southern African Development Community ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - True to his word, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is seeking another term in office. Wearing a yellow cap and blue jacket, the mayor filed his paperwork to seek a third term just ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba pushed it to the very end, but he ended up qualifying to run for a third term as mayor. At first, Municipal Clerk Angela Harris said she was not going to release ...

With Justin Trudeau set to resign as prime minister of Canada, and a federal election on the horizon, now is a crucial moment to reflect on Canada’s post-WWII leadership and its often-overlooked ...