When Louis Armstrong landed in Léopoldville (now Kinshasa) in October 1960, his trumpet was meant to herald American ...
The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted. By J. Hoberman “If the prophet dies, so does ...
Rendered in non-linear fashion, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat unfolds in three acts: an insight into the frosty relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the use ...