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(Akiit.com) Growing up in the South, food meant everything. You could walk into somebody’s house and know exactly what kind of mood lived there by the smell coming from the kitchen. Fried chicken snapping in hot grease. Pots of greens bubbling low on the stove for hours. Candied yams sitting ...
(Akiit.com) Socialism will always find an audience because it appeals to base envy and resentment. Ginning up a mob to be mad at “oligarchs,” “Wall Street barons,” “kulaks” or “billionaires” is cheap and easy. So, it was refreshing to hear Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the fourth richest man on the ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump is the undisputed king of the Republican Party. Earlier this month, Trump exacted revenge on Indiana state senators who had opposed his call to redistrict the Hoosier State; his endorsees won a majority of races against incumbents. Last weekend, Trump successfully nuked Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) from ...
(Akiit.com) My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She carried the weight of what her family had been to my family, and what her family had been to itself, the way you ...
(Akiit.com) At a news conference within hours after the shooting rampage at the San Diego Mosque the San Diego Police Chief said the obvious.,” the shooting would be investigated as a hate crime until it’s not.” His add on “it’s not” gave with one hand and took back with the ...
(Akiit.com) “What Alito doesn’t mention is that since 2013, the racial turnout gap around the nation has exploded. It beggars belief that Alito was unaware of this fact. He reached back nearly 20 years to include the only two elections in American history in which Black and white turnout reached ...
(Akiit.com) Willie E. Brake, an African American entrepreneur who was born with a disability, is the Founder of All About Technology, a Detroit-based business that is proudly celebrating 25 years of being ahead of the curve in expanding technology access, delivering trusted computer sales and service, and helping bridge the digital divide ...
(Akiit.com) Lily Bell, an African American educator for more than 40 years based in Macon, Georgia, has released a new book, Beyond the Myth: Morality and the Black Community, that compellingly dives into the contradictions and silences that have shaped generations. As an author, speaker, and podcast host, she is on a ...
(Akiit.com) Perhaps there are those of you who remember the 1968 film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood about a secret World War II mission to rescue an Allied General deep inside Germany at the fictitious Schloss Adler. The movie itself was fiction, but it was indeed an action thriller. ...
(Akiit.com) Years ago people enjoyed entertainers without making celebrity culture part of their identity. Somebody might buy a CD, watch an interview on television, laugh about gossip at work the next morning, then continue living their actual life. Now everything feels different. Some folks spend more time following celebrities than ...
