Liberia

May 25, 2016

In his first months in the US, Wilmot Collin’s home was graffitied by racists. But he still stayed.

Once a refugee, she's opened one of Liberia's few bookstores, where children can read about themselves

January 30, 2016

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02/01/2016 - 10:15am

It's hard to learn to read when your country has been torn apart by war and disease. It's even harder when children's books come from far away. But Wayétu Moore, whose family fled Liberia's civil war when she was five, is setting out to change the odds for kids in Liberia and other countries with low literacy.

Health

For Ebola patients, a way to see the faces of those helping

The World

April 07, 2015

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04/07/2015 - 4:30pm

Imagine being in a hospital with a deadly illness and you can't see the faces of the people caring for you. That's what it's like for Ebola patients. And it's what Los Angeles-based artist Mary Beth Heffernan went to Liberia to change.

Conflict

Why does America have a 'special' relationship with Liberia?

The World

November 18, 2014

So, how did Liberia come about? Well, it's mostly to do with racism — many whites just didn't like seeing free blacks. The solution people came up with was colonization.

Health

It's not just the US — Liberian officials are rethinking Ebola quarantines

The World

October 31, 2014

The issue of quarantine is not only a hot-button topic in the US: Officials in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, for instance, have grappled with the issue for months. And that is why some are now looking to Liberia to draw upon lessons learned from an evolved quarantine policy.

Health

This American doctor says racism is to blame for the slow response to the Ebola outbreak

The World

September 15, 2014

Dr. Joia Mukherjee is part of a small team of Boston-area doctors heading to Liberia this week, hoping to lay the groundwork for an ambitious, multi-year project aimed at combating the Ebola outbreak. She says the reason the world has responded so slowly to the crisis is that Africans and poor people are not considered important.

Young Fathers on Their Democratic Recording “Dead”

March 10, 2014

Young Fathers, Scotland’s leading rap trio, have returned, after three excellent EPs and the recent “Music to… Babylon” mix for iD Magazine, with their debut full-length, DEAD (available from Anticon in the US). The band tackles dark subjects on the ...<a class="meta-nav" href="http://www.afropop.org/wp/17148/dead-young-fathers-on-their-democratic-recording/"> Read more »</a>