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Liberian-American singer wrestles with journey from civil war in new EP
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The Liberian women who took on their traffickers and won
Liberian school children in the courtyard at Cathedral High School as students arrive in the morning to attend class in Monrovia, Liberia, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. 
Critical State
How we make decisions about politics in the aftermath of conflict
Haitian President Jovenel Moise arrives for an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Top of The World
Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in overnight attack
A woman stands in silhouette against a blue sky.
Immigration
Liberians hesitate to apply for permanent resident status in US over daunting process
Moroccan UN peacekeepers wearing blue helmets patrol a rich soil road Bangassou, Central African Republic, Feb. 14, 2021. 
Critical State
Externalities of intervention: Part I
A woman speaks at a podium representing Black Immigrant Collective.
Conflict & Justice
‘It’s hard to have hope when you haven’t had time to breathe,’ says Liberian American activist on Chauvin verdict
African American Mayor Mike Elliott poses in a dark gray suit
Justice
Brooklyn Center mayor on Chauvin trial: Black people can no longer tolerate ‘a state of terror’
Joe Biden, a white man, is stands near nominee Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a Black woman, who is wearing a dark blue suit onstage at a podium.
Global Politics
Biden pick to lead US mission at UN will ‘rebuild ties with our closest allies,’ says former amb.
A woman prays during a service
Justice
‘It doesn’t feel very real’: Liberian immigrants in US rejoice at pathway to citizenship
A group of people holding signs gather in front of a courthouse building
Immigration
Legal status for thousands of Liberians in US hangs on court decision
Alfred Brownell
Conflict & Justice
This Liberian lawyer risked his life to save West Africa’s last remaining rainforest from palm oil developers
Women in blue and white shirts dance and sing.
Immigration
Almost undocumented, Liberians in US get 11th hour reprieve
Woman in crowd looking at camera
Global Politics
Liberia was founded by people enslaved in the US. Advocates say the US should not end an immigration program that helps them.
Ellen Sirleaf wears a grey headwrap and robe as she speaks to a man in a blue suit.
Global Politics
Liberia’s Ellen Sirleaf: Women’s icon with nerves of steel
Supporters of George Weah, former soccer player and presidential candidate of Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), celebrate after the announcement of the presidential election results in Monrovia, Liberia
Global Politics
Football celebrates Weah’s win in Liberian presidential election
People wait to vote during the presidential election at a polling station of Duport Road in Monrovia, Liberia, Oct. 10, 2017.
Global Politics
Former warlords are among the Liberians vying to be the next head of state
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Global Politics
Liberians go to the polls on Tuesday to pick their first new president in 12 years
George Weah, a former soccer star, warlord and model looks on as he stands at the balcony after a news conference at his headquarters in Monrovia November 5, 2011.
Conflict
A former warlord, soccer player and model are running for president in Liberia
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveled to Liberia to support President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's only female president.
Books
How hard is it to elect a female head of state? Liberians made it look easy.
Jefferson Krua fled Liberia as a refugee at age 5, and eventually settled in Boston, MA. Recently, he's moved back to Liberia to help with re-building the country's infrastructure.
Culture
A young Liberian refugee, educated in America, chooses to move back ‘home’
Saah Exco was found alone on a beach in Monrovia, Liberia, naked and abandoned.
Media
Is the risk of photojournalism worth it?
Wilmot Collins gestures across table to a woman who he is speaking with
Culture
His message to new refugees in Montana: ‘You have to have thick skin’
Children reading "Gbagba"
Books
This children’s book is starting a national conversation about corruption in Liberia
Miatta reads
Books
Once a refugee, she’s opened one of Liberia’s few bookstores, where children can read about themselves
Ebola Survivor Gorma Dolo, holds an ebola free health certificate at her house in Freeman Reserve, Liberia.
Health
Ebola survivors face lingering health problems
The blood of a survivor of the Ebola virus is extracted as part of a study launched at Liberia's John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, June 17, 2015.
Medicine
West Africa is Ebola-free. Or is it?
Executive Committee member Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa (R) congratulates FIFA President Sepp Blatter after he was re-elected at the FIFA Congress in Zurich, Switzerland, May 29, 2015.
Sports
The men who want to clean up world soccer all have mud on their shoes
The Ebola virus might remain present in body fluids including semen longer than previously thought.
Medicine
Unravelling an ‘epidemiological mystery’ about the transmission of Ebola in semen
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Health
These women show what it looks like to survive Ebola in Liberia
Jianjay Potter and Grace Zardon in Monrovia, Liberia.
Health
For Ebola patients, a way to see the faces of those helping
As the Ebola epidemic peaks, new challenges are emerging in Liberia
Health
Now that Ebola is subsiding, the question is what to do with contaminated sewage
American soldiers take part in a ceremony marking the end of their mission to fight Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, on February 26, 2015.
Health
The war against Ebola isn’t over, but American troops can still come home
Student at Gibson High School in Monrovia, Deborah Natt,16, is smiling to be back at school. At every entrance there is a handwashing station.
Health
As Ebola loosens grip, Liberia’s schools begin re-opening
At Redemption Hospital in Liberia, health workers screen patients for Ebola at the entrance to the facility, cleaning them off with a chlorine solution, taking their temperature and asking a series of questions. "At our hospital we have tried to create a
Health
Ebola is creating a new epidemic of untreated illness and injury
A member of a burial team prepares to spray a colleague with chlorine disinfectant in Monrovia.
Health
Despite international aid, some Ebola workers are still ‘on the frontlines with no ammunition’
Michel du Cille's haunting photographs from the Ebola front included this one of Esther Tokpah, 11, orphaned in Monrovia, Liberia
Media
Remembering how photojournalist Michel du Cille framed the world
A mural in Monrovia illustrating health instructions for treating the Ebola virus.
Health
Liberians worry that next week’s elections might spread Ebola
US President Barack Obama meets Britain's Prince William
Global Scan
Prince William’s US trip seems more political than regal
Ebola map
Development
This nonprofit group is trying to make the world more equal — through mapping
Edward Turay, Sierra Leone's High Commissioner to Britain, attends the "Defeating Ebola: Sierra Leone" conference in central London on October 2, 2014.
Health
Ebola cases are soaring in Sierra Leone, and the government is coming up short
Doctors help each other with their protective suits during an Ebola virus drill in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Health
An epidemiologist in Monrovia describes hazmat training — from hand washing to elbow bumps
Rudolf Hess march in Wunsiedel
Global Scan
A German town turns a neo-Nazi march into an anti-hate walkathon
Ebola evacuation
Health
An epidemiologist suggests we take cues from the AIDS crisis in dealing with Ebola
Firestone has operated a rubber plantation in Liberia since 1926.
Global Politics
A new investigation into Firestone’s rubber plantation sheds light on Liberia’s civil war
Conflict
Why does America have a ‘special’ relationship with Liberia?
A satirical map created by Anthony England to show people around the world how little of Africa has been affected by the Ebola outbreak.
Health
Twitter snark helps put the geography of Ebola in stark relief
Residents who were in an Ebola quarantine area complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials, in West Point, Monrovia, on August 23, 2014.
Health
It’s not just the US — Liberian officials are rethinking Ebola quarantines
Nurse Deborah Wilson has recently returned from Liberia, where she worked with Doctors Without Borders to treat Ebola patients.
Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
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Music
Liberian immigrants hope their song will offer support to those dealing with Ebola back home
Liberian American Shoana Solomon started a campaign called "I am a Liberian, not a virus," to combat the stigma of Ebola.
Health
The ‘I am Liberian, not a virus’ campaign confronts the stigma of Ebola
A US Coast Guard corpsman at Washington Dulles International Airport checks the temperature of a traveler from West Africa.
Health
Ebola-related precautions on flights from West Africa get praise from this Liberian
A health worker checks the temperature of a man at a roadside medical checkpoint outside Ganta, Liberia.
Health
How Liberians confronting Ebola manage to keep calm while Americans panic
Customers must wash their hands in chlorinated water before entering the boutique, Moie, owned by Patrice Juah in Monrovia, Liberia.
Health
Welcome to the ‘non-stop, nerve-wracking, temperature-taking, handshake-prohibiting Ebola ride’
Ebola test
Global Politics
With no time to find a cure, Ebola could be contained faster with a quicker test
Health workers wearing protective equipment are pictured at the Island Clinic in Monrovia, Liberia on September 30, 2014, where patients are treated for Ebola.
Health
Even in the US, a doctor who treats Ebola is treated like a ‘half hero, half pariah’
Workers put the finishing touches on an Ebola virus treatment center in Monrovia on October 9, 2014.
Medicine
Keeping disease and people separate isn’t easy, even at Ebola treatment centers
US Marines have their temperatures taken upon arrival at Roberts International airport outside Monrovia, Liberia, on October 9, 2014.
Health
America’s ambassador in Liberia says progress must be quicker on Ebola
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.
Environment
Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola