Liberian musician Abraham P. “Detrench” Kallon gives a brief history of the country’s establishment in honor of Black unity and Juneteenth.

In the four years that Newark native Edward J. Roye lived in Liberia, he had become a very wealthy man. In 1850, he returned to the United States on personal business and was asked to return to Terra ...

Liberia once again faces a familiar crossroads, where the potential of petroleum wealth clashes with painful memories of exploitation, institutional weakness, and opaque decision-making.

On Nov. 23, 2005, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was elected president of Liberia, becoming Africa’s first democratically elected ...