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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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The teams behind "Sugarcane," "Black Box Diaries," "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" and "Porcelain War" discuss the urgency of their work ...

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

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Shortly before noon on a Thursday in June 1960, 34-year-old Patrice Lumumba stepped up to the podium at the Palace of the Nation in Leopoldville (current ...

and how Congo leader Patrice Lumumba landed in the crosshairs of outside interests. Along the way, jazz ambassadors including Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie are unaware, as they travel to perform ...