I’ll keep my nappy hair, thank you

Tweet Postcard writer bristles over columnist’s ‘terrible mess‘ (Akiit.com) No doubt about it, I’m nappy-headed. I wear my hair without straightening its curl pattern — which in my case is tight — when I don’t do anything to it my hair looks like a tumbleweed. But don’t think I let my hair go. I may […]

How can a black person find justice?

Tweet (Akiit.com) Tallahassee, Florida – I am concerned with the growing racial undertones that largely go unspoken but are manifested in the public square. Our predominantly and historically black university constantly has to live under the threats and political strangulation of budget cuts, which will lead to nonexistence. Yet all historically black universities are facing […]

In celebration of snitches in the black community

Tweet (Akiit.com) We have a phenomenon that occurs in the black community-somewhere in the fabric of what makes some of us who we are and what we are, there is a misguided notion as to what is good and what is bad. It can be seen in our use of language. “That’s a bad ride” […]

Nationwide Financial Study Shows More Than 70 Percent of African-American Males Retire for Reasons Beyond Their Control

Tweet Columbus, OH (Akiit.com) – According to a new study released by Nationwide Financial (NYSE: NFS), 73 percent of African-American males say they were driven into retirement by factors beyond their control, compared to 33 percent of the general population. This number represents retirees who say they had to retire when they did due to […]

Emory Professor New Morehouse President

Tweet ATLANTA (Akiit.com) — Morehouse College has selected Robert Franklin as the school’s tenth president. Franklin, a 1975 graduate of Morehouse, was selected on Saturday by the board of trustees. He also has a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Franklin is also a former […]

Stomping the N-Word

Tweet Movement to Ban Slur Crosses Communities (Akiit.com) The very mention of the word sends Jennifer Lowery-Bell’s mind spinning back to a painful time. “That word reminds me of lynchings and black men disappearing in the night and all of the dehumanizing things that used to happen to African Americans,” said Lowery-Bell, 59, a black […]

African-American corporate pioneer dies

Tweet Edward Boyd helped integrate sales force of Pepsi-Cola, changed blacks’ image in advertisements. NEW YORK (Akiit.com) — Edward F. Boyd, a seminal figure in African-American business history, died Monday at the age of 92, Pepsi announced Wednesday. In 1947 Pepsi-Cola hired Boyd to lead an all-black sales force to sell the soft drink in […]

STEVEN IVORY: Star Time Dress Code

Tweet (Akiit.com) They were flat and off key. I expected that. Musically, things aren’t what they used to be. But there’s simply something wrong about a platinum male vocal group being onstage looking as if they’d just traipsed in from McDonald’s. Sagging jeans and designer sneakers, however coordinated, don’t exude much show time luster. If […]

Alex Haley – Aboard the African Star – Press Release

Tweet (Akiit.com) After working on the book for more than a decade, Haley was stuck — and desperate I just love to get out in the ocean. You are really out there, thinking in ways you haven’t thought before. The best writing I ever possibly could do was after The Digest helped me go to […]

Bringing the Invisible Man to Light

Tweet (Akiit.com) Prominent African-American Scholar and Author Ralph Ellison once depicted the black man as socially invisible in his watershed novel Invisible Man. His hard-hitting portrayal of life in 1940s black America suggested that it’ll take more than a major Civil Rights movement to bring the nation out of its racist past. That was in […]

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