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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>
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.
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.
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
For Ebola patients, a way to see the faces of those helping
The World
April 07, 2015
Updated
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.
Books
Once a refugee, she's opened one of Liberia's few bookstores, where children can read about themselves
The World
January 30, 2016
Updated
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.
Culture
His message to new refugees in Montana: 'You have to have thick skin'
The World
May 25, 2016
In his first months in the US, Wilmot Collin’s home was graffitied by racists. But he still stayed.