Colorlines.com Unveils Redesigned Website.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Colorlines, the award-winning daily news site published by racial justice organization Race Forward, today announced the redesign of its website, Colorlines.com. Changes include cleaner design, simpler navigation, enhanced search functionality, and more engaging display of multimedia content. Colorlines was an early voice in race news reporting, starting as a quarterly journal in 1989, […]

Building Muscle.

Tweet (Akiit.com) When it comes to building muscle for men, there are essentially two different ways that people tend to go about doing this. I say this in terms of the way they approach their diet, you see, in order for your body to be able to be put in the position to be able […]

Ten Things Black People MUST Know This Holiday Season.

Tweet (Akiit.com) As quick as Halloween ended was just as fast as the Christmas season seemed to have kicked into high gear. From the Starbucks holiday cup controversy to premature Christmas tree displays, this is where we are. And as some of us grinches reluctantly get dragged kicking and screaming into the holiday cheer, I […]

College: Why We Should Retire the HBCU vs. PWI Debate.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Recent events at University of Missouri have sparked national conversation and action in response to racism on college campuses. Previously, we saw UCLA Law and Harvard students express their distress, and now Twitter and Facebook users have created #BlackOnCampus to do the same. Students have also opened a conversation we’ve seen one too […]

Hunt Terrorists in Ol Paris Massacre, Not Witch-hunt Muslims.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The instant news broke about the hideous bloodbath in Paris, the predictable happened. The tweets from the conservative echo chamber came fast and furious. They called for a total, all-out war, bashed immigrants, gun control advocates, liberals, the students at the University of Missouri, President Obama, lax security, permissiveness, and of course, Muslims. […]

Liberal Democrats; Destroying Your Vote.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that’s because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification. Interesting enough is the fact that I’ve never heard of a challenge to other ID requirements as racist, such as those: to board a […]

Politics; The Ben Carson Flaps.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Dr. Ben Carson’s whole life has been very unusual, so perhaps we should not be surprised to see the latest twist — the media going ballistic over discrepancies in a few things he said. Years ago, when I was writing some autobiographical sketches, I dug up old letters, to check out things that […]

Paris, France; Stop the Bleeding.

Tweet (Akiit.com) There was a painful irony when France’s immediate response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was to close the borders. If they had closed the borders decades ago, they might have avoided this attack. Someone once said that the First World War was the most stupid thing that European nations ever did. Countries […]

The American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout® is November 19.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Every year since 1976, the third Thursday in November marks the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers are encouraged to quit for the day and make a plan to quit for good. “Some people are able to quit on their own, without the help of others or the use […]

Black Americans for a Better Future Kicks Off Speakers Series.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF) launches its inaugural Speaker’s Series Luncheon in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, on Tuesday, November 17, 2015. The special guest for this series is the Honorable Boyd K. Rutherford, the Lieutenant Governor for the State of Maryland. In addition […]

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