By the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861, he was one of the largest coffee farmers in Liberia—and he hoped that this new country, to which several thousand Black Americans had fled to ...

A Liberian immigrant who spent years living in the Philadelphia region pleaded guilty Thursday to fraudulently obtaining immigration documents by failing to disclose that he had previously served as a ...

Ganta — Haunted by the scars of Liberia's brutal civil war, 100 women from Nimba County have broken their silence, demanding justice for the atrocities they endured. With a unified voice ...

The United States wants the Economic Community of West African States to take the lead in any mission to end 14 years of almost non-stop war in Liberia. Washington has said it might send a small ...

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Dr. Yolanda Covington-Ward delivered the second lecture in the Black Studies Program’s Sankofa Lecture Series at Suffolk ...

A new release out this spring from Liberian-American singer-songwriter Mon Rovia focuses on his journey to finding empathy from grief, and making peace with the fact that he escaped Liberia’s civil ...

T he lawyer responsible for setting up Liberia's long-awaited war crimes court told AFP that the first trials will take place in the next five years, more than two decades after the brutal civil ...

"Lewis Brown is no stranger to the civil war in Liberia," said T. Dempster Brown, Chairman of Liberia’s Independent Human Rights Commission, joining a growing chorus of critics. T. Dempster ...