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 believe that I...
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 for nine years...
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 to seduce all...
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 guards. But let...
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 Thomas Augusta to...
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 if you were...
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 was sworn in...
Akosua Report: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
written by Akosua Lowery
"We want more soul, a higher cultivation of all spiritual faculties. We need more unselfishness, earnestness, and integrity. We need men...
Akosua Report: Toni Morrison
written by Akosua Lowery
"In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate." - Toni Morrison, The Guardian, Jan. 29, 1992
Toni Morrison
Chloe Ardelia Wofford...
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 to study blacks....
