FREETOWN — Before “landing” atop a 20-foot-tall pillar in Freetown, the Cobra helicopter logged many miles in Vietnam during the war. Now, it’s the centerpiece of the town’s Memorial Park. Set above a ...

FREETOWN — A mob of militiamen and onlookers burned a king in effigy, raided an Assonet house, threatened to saw someone in half and almost hanged two men on Saturday night. And it was all done with a ...

Members of Capt. Tew’s Company of Col. Angell’s Regiment on Saturday marched in perfect unison around a field off Slab Bridge Road, solemnly looked to the idyllic sky above and rang a round of shots ...

Joe N’Damena, who was responsible for aid distribution at a Methodist church in Freetown, describes By Scot Broch The war started in the far eastern district of Kailahun, a direct result of a similar ...

JURIST Contributing Editor David Crane of Syracuse University College of Law, former Chief Prosecutor for the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, says that the first guilty verdicts handed down by the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On a springtime stroll through Freetown, a small, historic Black enclave in Anne Arundel County, ...

The true story of eight LDS Liberian missionaries in the midst of a civil war inspired director Garrett Batty's feature film 'Freetown.' The eight missionaries serving in their native country during a ...

Every day, Americans are confronted with news of horrors throughout the world which seem both vividly intimate and impossibly distant; helpless outrage is a characteristic emotion of the global age.

Few cities face the kind of challenges that Freetown faces. A city of 1 million and capital of the West African nation of Sierra Leone, Freetown endured a bloody civil war in the 1990s and continued ...

ST. JAMES — As a child, Shandria Smith would sit and listen to the stories her great-aunt told about growing up in a community founded by former slaves. By the time she was 12, Smith was writing down ...