Akwasi
Evans was born in Paris, Kentucky. He has been
involved in the civil rights movement for most of
his life. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., and became an organizer in college. He was a
member of the National Alliance Against Racism and
Political Repression as well as the Communist Party,
worked on several death row cases, and traveled to
Libya for a World Peace Conference. He is also an
accomplished writer who has written for several
magazines and newspapers, edited and published two
books of poetry, and traveled to Havana, Cuba to
perform his poetry. He runs Austin’s progressive
newspaper, NOKOA, the Observer, which he founded in
July of 1987.
