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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Summary: Young Liberians met with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and other senior leaders in Monrovia recently for a rare intergenerational dialogue on the country's past and future. Speakers ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Embassy of Liberia in Dakar has launched a renewed public diplomacy push aimed at promoting Liberian culture and history within Senegalese academic institutions, marking a significant step in ...

Re “An empire of rubber and dashed dreams of Black prosperity in Liberia” (Ideas, May 27): Growing up in Akron, Ohio, we took for granted rubber as the city’s economic engine. We didn’t ask, nor were ...

Police officer Lane Anderson removes a Patriotic Front sticker from a stoplight outside the Liberian Restaurant in downtown Fargo, N.D. Racial tensions are high in the city after a Liberian man was ...