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

Soundtrack to a Coup d’État is a phenomenal film—brilliantly crafted. Johan Grimonprez unearths truths about the overthrow of ...

Now there is a much greater recognition of the harm Belgium caused in Belgian Congo and Rwanda. Under Belgian rule the ...

Patrice Lumumba, who helped lead Congo’s struggle from a Belgian ... He was quietly targeted for assassination. Just two months after Congo’s independence, Lumumba was dismissed as prime minister and ...

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

Likewise, in Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, music is at the forefront of events that aren't as well known as the Nazi's rise to ...

The Trump administration is ousting four additional outlets from Pentagon workspaces, with CNN and The Washington Post set to ...

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is trapped in an unrelenting cycle of conflict, displacement, and humanitarian suffering ...

End Congo clash for Africa to move ahead The recent killings of more than 700 people in the Goma region of Eastern Congo are sad memories of the history of wars and instability that continue to rock ...

The country then sank into a major political crisis, marked by the assassination of its Prime Minister, Patrice Lumumba, in 1961. Faced with this situation, the UN deployed the UN Operation in the ...

Lubumbashi is little known, but its minerals electrified the world, created atom bombs and are key to greener energy, the ...