Akosua Report: Percy Julian
“…may I humbly submit to you, the only thing that has enabled me to do the creative work, was the constant...
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: Dr. Alexander Thomas Augusta
“I would like to be in a position where I can be of use to my race.” - Letter from Alexander...
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,...
Akosua Report: Martin R. Delany
"Your masters who lived in opulence, kept you to hard work by some contemptible being called overseer-who chastised and beat you...
Akosua Report: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
“The miscegenation laws of the South only operate against the legitimate union of the races; they leave the white man free...
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....
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: Joel Augustus Rogers
"Intellect, whether of civilized or uncivilized humanity, as you know, sir, is elastic in quality. That is, primitive man when transplanted...
Akosua Report: Charles Mingus
“I say, let my children have music. For God’s sake, rid this society of some of the noise so that those...
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