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. 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: Percussionist Max Roach
“…the community was just fraught with music. You could walk down the street; You heard people singing; you heard people playin’....
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: Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers
written by Akosua Lowery
“No one is alarmed when white scholars become experts on black thought because whites are generally considered qualified...
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: Miriam Makeba
"I ask you and all the leaders of the world, would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing...
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: 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: Eric Eustace Williams
I was born here, and here I stay, with the people of Trinidad & Tobago, who educated me free of charge...