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 ...

Patrice Lumumba, who helped lead Congo’s struggle from a Belgian ... It opens with Eisenhower’s call for Lumumba’s death to the rhythm of Max Roach’s famed drums and closes with the announcement that ...

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 movie awards season is in full swing but figuring out where to watch everything can be overwhelming. Take “The Brutalist,” a film that’s been dominating conversations since it ...

Grimonprez’s “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” which premiered at Sundance in 2024, is an impressionistic essay film that looks ...

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 ...