Blacks New Best Frenemy: The Antiabortion Advocates…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Antiabortion advocates are claiming that Black women are being specifically targeted for abortions in an effort to keep the Black population down-a conspiracy against the Black population. This comes after several antiabortion billboards popped up in Atlanta stirring up the race issue. The billboards feature the face of a Black baby and the […]

Waiting on the World to Change?

Tweet (Akiit.com) I just won’t give John Mayer a pass on his racist’s and misogynistic comments in a recent Playboy interview. You gotta draw the line somewhere and he’s definitely crossed it. When asked if black women interested him he commented, with a few choice expletives for emphasis, he said he doesn’t open himself to […]

Weighing the Promise of Healthcare and Finding it Wanting…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Speaking on ABC’s “This Week”, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi commented, “I think everybody wants affordable health care for all Americans. They know that this will take courage. It took courage to pass Social Security. It took courage to pass Medicare. And many of the same forces that were at work decades ago are […]

‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ is flawed but fiercely entertaining…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Director Antoine Fuqua has been chasing the shadow of his biggest hit-to-date, Training Day, for almost a decade. After that breakout success, (for which Denzel Washington won a much-deserved Academy Award for best actor) Fuqua’s subsequent films have disappointed either commercially (King Arthur), critically (Shooter) or both (Tears of the Sun). With his […]

RuPaul and O.J. Have Nothing in Common…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Slam Simpson and Dennis Rodman, if you must, but a black man in drag is no disgrace to black history. Far be it from me to parse the motivations of the California schoolteachers who presented portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul during a Black History Month parade. Perhaps they were well-meaning, […]

Study: High-Fat Diets Raise Stroke Risk in Women…

Tweet (Akiit.com) SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that’s in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women over 50, a large new study finds. We already […]

An NFL without a salary cap could make fans the biggest losers…

Tweet (Akiit.com) In perhaps a sign of these economically stressful times, the National Football League Players Association is clamoring for the restoration of a $123 million per-team, league-wide salary cap as the official start of the free-agent signing period dawns. Meanwhile football owners seem intent on standing idly by while costly concerns twist aimlessly in […]

Obama’s Black Agenda is the American Agenda…

Tweet (Akiit.com) President Barack Obama is quietly moving forward with a plan for black America. He’s just not talking about it. It’s probably a good idea. Obama has been criticized recently – particularly by commentator Tavis Smiley – for not speaking out directly on behalf of African-Americans and failing to specifically address the needs of […]

Paterson should ‘put the people first’ and resign…

Tweet (Akiit.com) One of the slogans of President Clinton’s 1992 Presidential campaign was “Putting People First.” Those three words gave voice to the growing feeling in the country that the people’s needs were not being put first – the political saga playing itself out in New York State is just the latest evidence for an […]

Chivalry Is Dead…

Tweet (Akiit.com) In its purest definition, Chivalry is truly dead. Chivalry refers to the code of ethics and conduct of a knight (or chevalier) during the Middle Ages, where his horse, weapons, attendants and flag were concerned. The code had nothing to do with conduct in love until much later. After the Crusades, poets turned […]

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