Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a 1933 vacation to ...

Cameroonian-American Philadelphia 76ers center and former NBA MVP Joel Embiid has joined the producing team of “Mfinda,” an ...

In 1483, the Portuguese first forged a relationship with the Kingdom of Kongo. Portuguese explorers aimed to spread Catholicism in Africa, colonize both people and land, and grow rich.

From the ashes of the Kingdom of Kongo rises Kimpa Vita, burned alive in 1706 for daring to preach that God was Black and that the divine resided in the people, not in the churches of the empire. She ...

“When we talk about Black Catholics, we had people from the Kingdom of Kongo who were Catholic even before they came here,” says Ansel Augustine, a New Orleans native and the assistant ...

The rumba originated in the ancient Kingdom of Kongo (now the DRC) and was the first music genre to represent the DRC’s identity. It experienced a resurgence in the 1930s due to the growing popularity ...

Starting on Sept. 9, 1739, an enslaved person named Jemmy Cato, likely from the Kingdom of Kongo, gathered 80 fellow slaves and led an armed rebellion in South Carolina's lowcountry.

Brazil remains the world’s deadliest country for transgender people, with 106 murders last year, according to Transgender Europe, a network of global nonprofit organizations that tracks the data.

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century, highlighting the ongoing violence against transgender people in Brazil ...

Ever wonder why Africa’s borders appear so strange? From winding borders to straight lines and landlocked nations, Al Jazeera explores the stories behind Africa’s map.

This kingdom covered parts of modern-day southwestern DRC, northern Angola, and the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville). Its inhabitants, the Bakongo, were the “real” Congolese prior to 1885.