In a jaw-dropping interview, Belgian Prince Laurent, the brother of King Philippe, attempted to defend his colonialist grandfather King Leopold II — who turned the Congo into a slave state — after ...

A long-controversial statue of former Belgian King Leopold II has been taken down after it was set on fire last week during global unrest over the police-custody death of George Floyd, according to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hew Locke, the British artist, will ‘interrupt the view’ of the King Leopold II statue with golden symbols of the Congo’s ...

A statue of former Belgian King Leopold II was removed by officials in the city of Antwerp on Tuesday after Black Lives Matter protesters set it on fire. The statue depicts Leopold, whose reign ran ...

A statue of Edward Colston was tossed into Bristol harbor and monuments to King Leopold II were defaced in Belgium. Protesters pull down a statue of Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest ...

Noah, a slight teenager wearing jeans and sneakers, is dwarfed by the bronze statue of Belgium's King Leopold II astride a horse. The statue, set high on a concrete plinth, has stood opposite the ...

A competing petition created in response to Noah's calls for Brussels to keep it's statues to Leopold II in place arguing, "He is not a slave king, he only delegated powers to certain people to manage ...