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: 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: 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: Paul Yaw Boateng
“…young people -- who all too often are not heard in our society-- young people at risk and young people in...
Akosua Report: Pickney Benton Stewart Pinchback
"I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all...
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: 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: 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: 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...