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2009 As A Litmus Test For Change: Contact Sport or Spectator Sport?

January 11, 2009 by  
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) The expectations of the New Year has us all expecting change on some level. Change in the nation’s political direction; change in the global situation; change in the economy; change in the job markets; change in the schools; change in our local communities; change in our personal lives. Funny thing about change? It’s […]

Executives Working to Create Black-Owned Holding Company…

January 11, 2009 by  
Filed under Money/Business, News, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) Three African American executives are trying to raise $50 million to create a black-owned bank holding company with some help from the federal government. The entity, MBF LP, would be designed to make capital investments in and own parts of new and existing black-owned U.S. banks, said William Michael Cunningham, senior investment adviser […]

Will the Obamas find a black church to call home…

January 10, 2009 by  
Filed under Health, News, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) President-elect Barack Obama has said the African-American church transformed him from a skeptic to a believer. He has spoken appreciatively of its vibrant worship and written about how the black church experience has moved him to tears. And he has credited African-American congregations for their work in helping the powerless and in speaking […]

Senate Democrats Thumb Nose at Blacks…

January 6, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush has screamed long and loud that the Senate’s bash of disputed Illinois senate appointee Roland Burris is racism. Burris took the cue and chimed in that he also whiffed race in the Senate Democrats’ obsession with keeping him out of the Senate. Rush and Burris took much flack for […]

What the World Needs Now…

January 6, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) The first time I heard the phrase “Kinder, gentler nation” was in the 1980’s. It was a Republican slogan and I knew even then that it was mostly bullcrap. I knew it was propaganda designed to hide the greedy, selfish warmongers who wanted the world to believe that they were going to make […]

We Need a Bailout of the Spirit…

January 2, 2009 by  
Filed under News, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) The good news is that the Bailout will make a difference. The Federal government’s response to America’s limping economy will slowly begin to ease some of the pain and hysteria. It’s a recession–we knew that before they told us. We’ve survived recessions. At some point in the next couple of years, the infusion […]

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