Akosua Report: Harold Lee Washington
“In our ethnic and racial diversity, we are all brothers and sisters in a quest for greatness. Our creativity and energy...
Akosua Report: Ralph David Abernathy
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national...
Akosua Report: Alain Locke
"Negro life is not only establishing new contacts and founding new centers, it is finding a new soul. There is a...
Akosua Report: James Brown
“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”
James Brown
On...
Akosua Report: Hiram R. Revels
written by Akosua Lowery
In 1870, Hiram R. Revels (R-Miss.), became the first black member of the United States Senate as he...
Akosua Report: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
“What with the range of ideology, religious belief, political commitment and background, age, and experience, something interesting was always going on....
Akosua Report: Wangari Muta Maathai
I kept stumbling and falling and stumbling and falling as I searched for the good. 'Why?' I asked myself. Now I...
Akosua Report: Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler
UPDATE (11/28/16) - The Photo of Dr. Rebecca Davis Lee Crumpler included in the original post of of this article on...
Akosua Report: Arthur Ashe
by Akosua Lowery
“…historians had underestimated the socio-historical impact of the black athlete in black American life. But the truth is that...
Akosua Report: Jazz Trumpeter Donald Byrd
“I met him in the 11th grade in Detroit,” he (Byrd) said. “I skipped school one day to see Dizzy Gillespie,...
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