The Burton Wire’s Top News Stories of 2013
As 2013 comes to a close, The Burton Wire brings you our top news stories from the African Diaspora in 2013....
Akosua Report: Marcus Garvey
"Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation founded by ourselves. And the nation can...
Akosua Report: William Dawson
"Politics with me is a full- time business, it is not a hobby to be worked on in leisure hours, it’s...
Akosua Report: Francis L. Cardozo
“e have been cheated out of our rights for two centuries, and . . . I want to fix them in...
Akosua Report: Richard Wright
“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly,...
Akosua Report: Louis Jordan
“...Rock and Roll music was simply rhythm and blues music played by white performers." Louis Jordan
Born on July 8, 1908 in...
Akosua Report: Eric Eustace Williams
I was born here, and here I stay, with the people of Trinidad & Tobago, who educated me free of charge...
Akosua Report: Booker T. Washington
“No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the...
Akosua Report: Benedict Wallet Vilakazi
'Bury me where the grasses grow
Below the weeping willow trees
To let their branches shed upon me
Leaves of varied greens.
Then, as I...
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...
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