Whether or not they knew it, the crowds who cheered President Donald Trump at a July 17 rally in North Carolina by chanting “send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar were part of a long American ...

Its main focuses are the ambiguous relationship between the United States and the Liberia, west Africa, over the past two centuries. Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who ...

The government, under President George Weah, says the theme is meant to celebrate Liberia as a refuge for freed slaves and memorialise black freedom, nationhood as well as the role that Liberia has ...

Liberia was the first African colony to become an independent republic. In 1833, the colony’s founding organization, the American Colonization Society, issued a copper coin bearing the names of the ...

David Sasaki is in Monrovia, Liberia to teach Liberians how to blog. He writes a short history of the country: “Liberia’s history – and specifically its relationship with the United States – is ...

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The Governance Commission (GC) has convened a one-day policy dialogue on the Revitalization and Rewriting of an Inclusive and Comprehensive History of Liberia under the theme "History of the ...

Two weeks ago, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf wrote a letter to Barack Obama concerning the outbreak of Ebola in her tiny West African country. The message was a desperate one, the tone ...

- A Juneteenth celebration in Monrovia moved well beyond commemoration on Thursday, June 19, as creative and policy heavyweights mapped out practical ways to deepen economic and cultural ties between ...

In August 2023, I joined Afro Charities as an intern. I came as someone who had spent considerable time immersed in archives, deeply revering the processing archivists whose hands, eyes, feet and ...

On a sticky hot Liberian Saturday afternoon, doll-faced Caroline, 15, sat across a poorly lit room while a much younger girl talked. When Caroline’s turn to speak arrived, her eyes picked a spot on ...