But further research is recommended for those who wish to know about history that connects several places in the American South with the West African country of Liberia. The Converse connection? The ...

NEWTOWN -- Sometimes it takes a picture from the other side of the world to teach important life lessons here at home. Earlier this year, fifth- and sixth-graders at Reed Intermediate School ...

Herman Cohen was U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 1989-1993. In this interview, conducted by filmmaker Nancee Oku Bright in February 2000, Cohen discusses the long-term ...

The Africa-Barbados Heritage Initiative (TABHI) has launched a new website, aimed at preserving the shared history between Barbados and Liberia while deepening cultural, historical, and diplomatic ...

CEDAR FALLS | Displaced from her homeland by civil war, Christine Seyboe Tour spent her time saving female refugees from prostitution by teaching them a trade. The Liberian refugee and young ...

A new biography of Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is getting rave reviews and has me thinking about the connections between Madison and Liberia, which start with Sirleaf herself. The subject ...

CONVERSE, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Converse, a rural village in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, has a prominent place in the education of African Americans post-Reconstruction era. But the little village may also ...

An area in Africa referred to as "Kentucky in Africa" was named to honor Henry Clay. Explore the origins of Liberia, a country founded by African-American slaves who were offered their freedom if they ...

Converse, a rural village in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, has a prominent place in the education of African Americans post-Reconstruction era. But the little village may also have ties to hundreds of ...