Jacob Massaquoi

Staten Island Borough President James P. Molinaro joins to talk about the policy implications of Staten Island’s changing demographics. Later, Jonathan Peters, co-director of the Center for the Study of Staten Island at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, discusses the demographic shifts in Staten Island over the past ten years. Then Jacob Massaquoi, director of the African Refuge, a community center for Africans in Staten Island, talks about the West African community in Staten Island over the past ten years, particularly Liberians. Ruthie Ackerman, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and founder of the Ceasefire Liberia and Ceasefire Staten Island, joins us to talk about Liberian youth in Staten Island.

Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is being tried at the Hague on 11 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other serious violations of international law committed during Sierra Leone's conflict. On today's Underreported, we talk about the trial, and how Charles Taylor's legacy has fractured the lives of ...