How Ebola Lockdowns Failed a Liberian Community
In her new book, A History of the World in Six Plagues, Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a neighborhood — possibly foreshadowing what's to come ...
ABC News27d
How the effort to resettle formerly enslaved Black Americans created Liberia
A main road through downtown Monrovia, Liberia is pictured, Oct. 04, 2023. John Wessels/AFP via Getty Images Before the American Civil War, many formerly enslaved people and their descendants ...
The New York Times24d
COLORED PEOPLE START FOR LIBERIA.; A Party of 311 Leave Savannah on the Steamship Laurada.
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International Rescue Committee12d
Closure of IRC Liberia office after three decades of humanitarian and development accomplishments
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is looking back at nearly three decades in Liberia dedicated to humanitarian and development service to the Liberian people as we close our country office on ...
Rolling Stone15d
How Ebola Lockdowns Failed a Liberian Community
Yet his introspection about the fragile condition of health under capitalism emphasizes something relevant about people, whether in Liberia or elsewhere, if society could be gentler to the worker ...