Glenna Gordon The Masonic Lodge in Monrovia, Liberia. Before the civil war, the descents of American slaves who mainly controlled the government often made official decisions at the lodge ...

Talking with National Geographic's Peter Gwin about reporting on the aftermath of the Central African Republic’s civil war. Last week, NationalGeographic.com published Peter Gwin’s account of ...

Dr. Yolanda Covington-Ward delivered the second lecture in the Black Studies Program’s Sankofa Lecture Series at Suffolk University March 31. Covington-Ward is a professor and the chair of the W.E.B.

At a colorful celebration that brought together chiefs, elders, government officials, youth, and community leaders, ...

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 ...

Given the background of a brutal seven-year civil war, Liberia's transition process ... and politically motivated criminal charges. In the aftermath of the Lofa County incursions in 1999, security ...

"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 ...

In December 2011, Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her role in helping to end the devastating civil war in Liberia. She had mobilised thousands of women to take part in daily ...

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 ...