A frequently published writer and award-winning Brooklyn-based historical researcher, educator/playwright, and “ancestral storyteller” Cousins-Newton designed and taught,“Inspiring Tales from the Underground Railroad”, a motivational course on Underground Railroad contributors which was offered by institutions and universities across the country and Canada.
The birth mother of the Nana Tubman Honor in Ghana Project, the author coordinated with John Watusi Branch of Jamaica, New York's Center for Culture/The Afrikan Poetry Theatre, the posthumous Enstoolment, (a sacred Ghanaian ritual), of Nana Harriet Ross Tubman-Davis as a Queen Mother of Ghana on June 10, 2000. This was followed by a street naming and statue unveiling in Aburi, Ghana, in honor of the great Underground Railroad contributor on August 15, 2005 which was officiated by Nana Osei Boakye Yiadom II, one of Ghana’s first female Chiefs.
Married to Cyril A.(“Papa”) Newton, Jr., a Black Seminole descendant and Bahamas Junkanoo performer, the Tennessee-born author has coordinated Junkanoo rushouts (performances) at the Corporate Hospitality Village of Super Bowl XXV, the United Nations, and the International African Arts Street Festival. In addition to promoting and performing with her husband on “ancestry-lifting” occasions, in Junkanoo, Cousins-Newton lectures on the international underground railroad and the Black Seminoles’ vital role in it, including in her work a traveling mini-exhibit of Seminole memorabilia.
Website Link: ANCESTRAL TRAVELS
(The Nana Tubman Honor in Ghana Page can be linked through the above-given Ancestral Travels Site)
