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Maybe Your Great-Grandmother Really Was Cherokee…

November 20, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian traces black-Native American relations from the 1500s to the present. Black folks who always heard that grandma was an Indian—Cherokee, you say?—will get a sense of affirmation from a museum exhibit that just opened at the National Museum of the American Indian […]

Ebony Magazine’s Latest Celebrates Black Power…

November 20, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) In a year when the first African-American president in our nation’s history took office, it’s only fitting that Ebony magazine should celebrate black power with their December/January issue. The Celebration issue, the magazine’s first, will be on newsstands Tuesday, Dec. 1st. There will be eight different cover options available to the public. As […]

What Should Brothers Learn From Obama? Courage…

November 20, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) I figured it was only a matter of time before some news organization would weigh in on how black men were living up to their man duties a year after voters put one of them in the White House. So CNN recently visited a Dallas barber shop and some social service organizations to […]

America must join the civilized world on teen life sentences…

November 20, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court took a huge step toward joining nearly all nations on the globe when it banned teen executions. But it was only a step. The U.S. still locks up more juveniles for life without the possibility of parole than all nations combined. The High Court will rule on […]

‘The Blind Side’ an obvious appeal to white guilt…

November 20, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Internet Movie Database sources report that Warner Brothers is spending over six million dollars to promote its new film The Blind Side. That’s twice the production budget of the controversial movie Precious. Toss that figure in with the myriad of contrasts between the two movies and the only apparent similarities become (1) two […]

Jesse Jackson’s race-baiting is doing the president no favor…

November 20, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) In the now seemingly-distant halcyon days of the 2008 presidential campaign, the election of the first African-American president carried with it the promise of exorcizing the phantoms that have haunted America’s race relations. Many political observers surmised that with Barack Obama’s election, self-anointed and often polarizing black leader Reverend Jesse Jackson would retreat […]

BuyTile – Tiles, etc…

November 20, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Like many I do need to remodel my bathroom… Nice beautiful mahogany tiles will do wonders… Yes brighten up the area, so I can show it off… Well wife will do that… Anyway I do need to clean up this pc… It’s so slow now… I hope I don’t have a virus… Let […]

Health Care and the Moral Imperative…

November 19, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) I am always troubled by those in government claiming they have a moral imperative to enact this or that policy. A little digging often reveals that their motives are more self serving than moral. I am doubly troubled when those raising the moral banner tend to reject the very idea of an objective […]

What We Can Do About Health Reform Now…

November 19, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Here’s what black folks can and should do about health care reform, no matter what Congress or the Obama administration do. 1. Go old school and revive the Black Panther Party free health clinic concept. Anyone who went through the turbulent 1960s – when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the Black Panther […]

For blacks spanking has ties to slavery…

November 18, 2009 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Recently, a study found that spanking has a negative effect on toddlers, particularly those from low-income households. Precious, the new movie by Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, is the story of a black teen mother who survives physical and sexual abuse from her parents. While the movie strikes a chord with those who […]

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