Why Many Black Women Will Die By Age 44

Tweet (Akiit.com) In March, we focused our attention to celebrate women’s history month; one of many worthy of national observance. While we have certainly made many important strides over the past decades, there is cause for concern due to the current state of our health as women of color. We hear about all the major […]

Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women’s Social Thought

Tweet  Reviewed by Kam Williams (Akiit.com) “This book endeavors to piece together the broken utterances of 20 women into a seamless painting of understanding which is representative of Black women of the 19th Century… It is an examination of how the unique position of the African-American woman provides her with the ability to dissect the […]

The Seduction of Mr. Bradley

Tweet Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah  (Akiit.com) The Seduction of Mr. Bradley by Chicago author Minnie E. Miller tells a very different kind of love story, a love story complicated by preferences.  These particular preferences are not always understood or accepted by society and that is where it gets complicated. Bill Bradley a bisexual man falls […]

Rihanna Releasing New Single, `Umbrella’

Tweet (Akiit.com) Some singers take two-year breaks between albums. Rihanna is working on her third disc, just two years after releasing her first. “It’s a nonstop pace, very speedily, and Def Jam does not play, that’s all I can tell you,” she joked of her record label in an interview with Akiit.com. “We just keep […]

THE SAGA CONTINUES: Some Blacks Joining the Darkside on Apology for Slavery?

Tweet        Do people realize how rare this is?       (Akiit.com) On March 8th of this year I wrote in my column, The Saga Continues, an op-ed piece called Is Virginia’s apology for slavery significant and how could it affect the national debate.       Though written with a select audience in mind, the selection caught […]

DENZEL DEPLOYED TO IRAQ FOR NEXT FILM: Actor to produce and possibly star in movie based on soldier killed in Baghdad.

Tweet       (Akiit.com) Denzel Washington has agreed to produce and possibly star in “Journal for Jordan,” a film based on the letters of a soldier killed in Baghdad during the Iraq war.       The project is based on a New York Times essay written by Dana Canedy, who described a 200-page journal written by her […]

SHARPTON, HSAN TO MARCH AGAINST TONY YAYO: Plus, 50 says he wasn’t present during rapper’s alleged assault against teen.

Tweet       (Akiit.com) Al Sharpton, the Hip Hop Summit Action Network’s Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, and other community and religious leaders are planning a march to protest the alleged actions of G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo.       Billed as a “call to action and public grievance,” the rally is planned for Monday as a […]

NYE MOVES WEST; BUYS BEVERLY HILLS MANSION: Artist pays $7.2 million for 3300 square foot spread.

Tweet      (Akiit.com) Chicago-born rapper-producer Kanye West is now the proud owner of a 3,300 square foot Beverly Hills mansion after paying a reported $7.2 million.       According to the Los Angeles Times, Ye’s new traditional-style crib includes six bedrooms, four bathrooms and park-like grounds of almost an acre. It had been more than 45 […]

EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON: Congress Should Listen to The Judges on Mandatory Sentencing.

Tweet      (Akiit.com) Every effort to scrap or modify the blatantly unfair minimum mandatory sentencing law for illicit drug abusers has crashed against two things.      The first was then President Bill Clinton’s half-hearted fight to change the disparity sentencing in the law in Congress in the mid-1990s.      Next, it crashed against President Bush […]

BUSTA RHYMES TO FACE TRIAL FOR ASSAULT: Judge snatches plea offer that would’ve kept rapper free.

Tweet       (Akiit.com) Busta Rhymes is headed for trial on two assault charges after a New York judge decided Monday to take a plea offer off the table.       The agreement would’ve allowed the rapper to remain free, but Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Tanya Kennedy withdrew the offer because of his recent arrest for driving […]

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