Titled in Swahili “Chini ya Ardhi”, meaning “Underground” in French, the exhibition presents works carrying powerful messages ...

A man wearing a silver suit and silver bucket for a helmet walks down a busy dirt street in a ghetto in Kinshasa. This is just an ordinary day in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s capital and ...

BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Near the banks of Lake Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, artist Patrick Cikuru Cirimwami wades knee-deep through a mountain of ...

In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand to attention in a clearing. Their handlers, puppeteers dressed in black, begin to move ...

For decades—if not centuries—people on plantations in Congo and elsewhere have been deprived of culture and forced into unpaid labor. This violence has supported wealth and art in the Global North, ...

Ben Kamuntu is a slameur (slam poet) with Goma Slam Session, a blossoming collective of spoken word artists in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He’s also an activist with the pro-democracy ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Juneteenth celebrations continued Sunday across Chicago with local artists and performers raising money for a good cause. Monday will be the first time Illinois officially honors ...

Artist Paul Deo is the not-to-miss artist at Jazz Fest's Congo Square craft booths. You have to see Deo's portrait of Hornets star Chris Paul in person to really appreciate it. The bright, swirling ...