History may indeed be written by the victors, but sometimes, often generations later, it is mercifully corrected. Pamela Newkirk has done just that in an important new book that retells the ...

Many organizations have pledged solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement or to atone for past sins against people of color as the nation faces a reckoning with race. The latest entity to do so ...

A condensed version of this piece appeared in the July print issue of In These Times. Benga’s New York captors firmly believed that they were the man’s benevolent-minded caretakers; the small Bushman ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

The enlightened wags of America blamed his intellectual shortcomings when an undersized African man named Ota Benga put a pistol to his breast and committed suicide a century ago. Though his end came ...

When a Congolese man named Ota Benga died in Lynchburg 100 years ago this past weekend, the official (and obvious) verdict was that he had taken his own life. In reality, however, his life had been ...

There is perhaps no sadder example of colonialism’s human toll than the life of Ota Benga. Grand narratives of nation and identity are often inscribed in little-told stories of individual degradation, ...

During the 19th century, U.S. fairs and museums featured exotic animals and human beings. One of the last humans to be exhibited was Ota Benga, a pygmy from the Belgian Congo. In the fall of 1906, ...

One of the things we love about the City section is that sometimes you can see their heads working. For instance, a month ago they had an Andy Newman story on letters to the Mayor which had a ...

Pianist David Haney first came to the attention of the creative improvised music crowd through collaborations with trombonist Julian Priester. In addition to a variety of well-honed skills and fertile ...