The American Colonization Society still controlled Liberia when Edward Roye moved there in 1846. In 1847, however, Liberians declared their independence, so they could establish a sovereign state and ...

In the four years that Newark native Edward J. Roye lived in Liberia, he had become a very wealthy man. In 1850, he returned to the United States on personal business and was asked to return to Terra ...

In March 1845, Newark-born Edward James Roye sold his business and property in Terre Haute, Indiana. The property he owned in Newark was sold two months later. It is believed that his wife died this ...

Liberian musician Abraham P. “Detrench” Kallon gives a brief history of the country’s establishment in honor of Black unity and Juneteenth.

A storm is brewing in the corridors of the Liberian Legislature as two prominent lawmakers -- Speaker J. Fonati Koffa and Representative Musa Hassan Bility -- have raised alarm over what they describe ...