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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was in 1865 that Edward James Roye was appointed as Chief Justice of Liberia, an office he held until 1868. The American ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liberian President William V.S. Tubman sits for a portrait while visiting Akron in 1954. Star-spangled banners fluttered over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After 22 years in power, he ousted the Republican Party from power as a member of the True Whig Party. In addition, Roye was not popular with the American Colonization Society, which still wished to ...

The American Colonization Society still controlled Liberia when Edward Roye moved there in 1846. In 1847, however, Liberians declared their independence, so they could establish a sovereign state and ...