Another Cruel and Unusual Punishment for Teens…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Four years ago the US Supreme Court took a big step toward righting a galling wrong. It joined nearly every other nation on the globe and banned teen executions. Now it should take the next big step and dump all laws that let states lock up juvenile offenders for the rest of their […]

Hopes Rise for Progress on Fatherhood Problems…

Tweet (Akiit.com) With a centennial celebration of Father’s Day coming next month, and a new president committed to supporting better parenting, liberals and conservatives alike say the political stars may be aligned for major progress in promoting responsible fatherhood. It’s an issue that’s been divisive in the past, even as research made clear that the […]

Do Black females’ lives really matter?

Tweet (Akiit.com) I went to a Los Angeles crime scene last week that left a teenage girl dead and a 30-year-old paraplegic arrested for murder. If I’d driven by too fast, I’d have missed the small makeshift memorial of candles and teddy bears that marked the spot where another Black person lost their life to […]

State’s Black media leaders pushing for stimulus dollars…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Wilmington, Florida -Black publishers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) are concerned that there is nothing “designed” in President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package to do business with Black newspapers. Florida’s Black-owned media say they are taking a more direct approach to get a fair share of the stimulus money flowing […]

THE BRIDGE: Violent Women, Part 2…

Tweet (Akiit.com) There are as many violent women as men, but there’s a lot of money in hating men…” –Erin Pizzey, founder of the first modern battered women’s shelter. *Right now, a great deal of media time and personal discussion time is being spent on the Chris Brown beating of Rihanna. Female victims of domestic […]

100 Day Silliness…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Then Democratic Presidential contender Barack Obama did a prescient thing last October. He told an interviewer on a Colorado radio station that he thought the first 1000 days not the first 100 days would make the crucial difference for his presidency. Candidate Obama directly parodied the line from JFK’s inauguration address in 1961. […]

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