The Root is giving Ellen Johnson Sirleaf--Liberia's first female president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate--her flowers for consistently serving as a global beacon of freedom, women's empowerment, and democracy just before her 88th birthday.
A hearing for Kilmar Abrego Garcia which was expected to determine whether the man mistakenly sent by the Trump administration to El Salvador would be deported to Liberia was abruptly canceled Tuesday for reasons that were not immediately clear.
Kilmar Ábrego Garcia will be back in federal court in Maryland as the government keeps trying to deport him. His legal team wants to make a preliminary injunction permanent to prevent his deportation. The injunction was put in place in ...
The fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia will again be argued in court on Tuesday when his legal team asks a federal judge to block his deportation to Liberia.
He was arrested in Baltimore in March 2025 after picking up his then-5-year-old son, who has autism and other disabilities, from his grandmother's house ...
In the 1800s, West Africa became a focal point for efforts to remove Black people from America. The arrival of free people later gave the country its name.
Collectively, they hailed from Italy, the Bahamas, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, North Macedonia, Liberia, Lithuania, Ghana, Germany, Bosnia, Brazil, Canada, and South Africa.
Under a series of often-secret agreements, the Trump administration has deported some 25,000 people to more than two dozen countries, including Liberia and Guyana.