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The Partners For Africa Program (www.pfa-partnersforafrica.org): Bringing African Americans Closer To Africa

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet Alexandria, VA (Akiit.com) – Partners in Development (PID) has launched a new initiative with the objective of developing partnerships between African-Americans and African organizations working in the critical area of HIV/AIDS in eight sub-Saharan countries in Africa. The Project is also launching the Experience Africa Newsletter. The project, which commenced in January of 2007 […]

Famous Amos No Longer Black Owned

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) One of the most popular phrases in urban communities is “support black businesses.” The declaration instills pride and promotes the survival of the black business merchants. The phrase became a necessity because, after the civil rights movement and integration, the black business district began to decline. So whenever there’s a black business or […]

Editor Out at AOL Black Voices

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet Nick Charles Is Third Leader to Go Since March (Akiit.com) Less than four months after the general manager and publisher of the Web site AOL Black Voices stepped Nick Charles down, Nick Charles, the Web site’s editor-in-chief, left abruptly this week, Charles confirmed on Friday. “I’m weighing a couple of things,” Charles told Journal-isms, […]

Black men honored for business excellence

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Oakland rolled out the red carpet for a night of ties, tuxes and plenty of flash during the African American Excellence in Business Awards and Scholarship Gala. That was Wednesday evening, when Las Vegas glitz met Oakland civic pride at the Oakland Marriott hotel. “It’s good when black folks can come up and […]

Snoop Dogg’s life to be E! reality show…

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) LOS ANGELES – Snoop Dogg’s home and work lives will be on display in a new reality series, E! Entertainment Television said Friday. The series, scheduled to debut in late 2007 and described by the cable channel as “hilarious and heartwarming,” will show the hip-hop heavyweight trying to balance his different worlds. “The […]

Hot Ghetto Mess a hot-button issue

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) What, exactly, is ghetto? An Austin woman, fed up with negative media images of African-Americans and women, doesn’t want to know. Gina McCauley has launched a campaign against an upcoming show on Black Entertainment Television that she feels degrades and demeans. She’s had some success: Earlier this week, State Farm Insurance pulled its […]

Black scholars on sports: controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports…

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet John Hoberman, ‘Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race’ (Akiit.com) Controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports New York — If African Americans have become overly obsessed with sports, the engagement or lack thereof by Black intellectuals on the […]

Young black smokers face obstacles to quitting

July 14, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) An “alarmingly” high number of inner-city black young adults smoke and, for those trying to quit, several factors may conspire to thwart their efforts, research shows. A key factor, researchers found, is the widespread belief among 18- to 24-year-old black smokers and nonsmokers that smoking cigarettes is a normal behavior that’s very common […]

Press Release: “GrandMamma’s Prayers”

July 13, 2007 by  
Filed under Arts/Literature, Book Reviews, News

Tweet (Akiit.com) James Langston’s book, “GrandMamma’s Prayers is now available through Lulu Publishing Enterprises, Inc. NAPLES, ITALY, July 2007 – When we think of GrandMamma, we often think of food, Sunday afternoons, and church. GrandMamma’s Prayers records a simpler time in life when people cared about you, not because of what you had, but who […]

Press Release: Getting a Grip: Timelessness in a Temporary World

July 13, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Balancing Christian and spiritual living with being a black American in a world that seems to be falling backward in time instead of going forward? In the mid-1980’s, I read a book by Charles R. Swindoll titled “Strengthening Your Grip: Essentials in an Aimless World.” That book taught me a lot, and stuck […]

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