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 whenever he pleased-while...
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 May 3, 1933,...
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, I would send...
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 a job –...
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 who have ears...
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 determination: Take Heart:...
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 are unequalled by...
Akosua Report: Josephine Baker
When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far...
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. Because no matter...
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 white man’s food,...
