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Liberia: America's Stepchild
(Sep. 25, 2002) The untold story of America ’s African progeny is presented in LIBERIA : AMERICA ’S STEPCHILD, premiering on PBS Thursday, October 10, 2002 at 10pm (check local listings).
This dramatic documentary follows the parallel stories of America’s relationship with the African republic of Liberia—founded and backed by the American Colonization Society and the US government as a home for freeborn blacks and former slaves—and the settlers’ relationship with the indigenous people.
Looking through the eyes of Liberian filmmaker Nancee Oku Bright, the film also explores the causes of the turmoil that has ravaged Liberia since 1980. “Today people generally think of Liberia as a disaster, but it was not always so. Liberia was a founding member of the United Nations and one of the key initiators of the Organization of African Unity.
It was the only Black republic in the sea of colonial Africa and it made the colonizers very uncomfortable and the Africans very proud,” says producer Nancee Oku Bright.
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