The Republic of Liberia was controversial when founded by free Black emigrants from America during the darkest days of slavery. Today, it stands as a symbol of a successful colonial experiment by ...

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 ...

Liberians headed to the polls last month to vote in their country’s general elections, and they will be returning on November 14 to decide the presidential runoff. With about 5.2 million people, ...

"Meeting of the American Colonization Society at Washington." Undated illustration. Staff Writer Whether or not they knew it, the crowds who cheered President Donald Trump at a July 17 rally in North ...

It was intended to be background for a feature in Black Flag that never happened. It probably needs improving, especially on the responses of the people who lived there to their role as supplier of ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A Black history event in Richmond will celebrate a West African country. "The bicentennial celebration for Liberia is marking two hundred years of free slaves from the U.S. returning ...

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 ...

Mahja Zeon, the reigning Miss Liberia in the U.S. 2010, is more than a pretty face in the crowd. The Marietta resident seeks to educate, inspire and transform lives through her Liberian culture.

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