EMPOWERING AFRICAN AMERICAN PARENTS…

Tweet (Akiit.com) As we enter the final days of 2010, one of the outstanding issues of the past 12 months is the inadequate education that the majority of African American children and young adults are receiving throughout the United States. All parents, and in particular, African American parents, want the best for their children. Thus, […]

President Obama should turn a Deaf Ear to chatter About Not Running Again…

Tweet (Akiit.com) President Obama should turn a deaf ear to the silly chatter about him not running again. He’s heard plenty of that in the weeks since the midterm election drubbing. Much of the chatter hasn’t come from the usual, hostile GOP and Tea Party suspects. They’ve flatly said their goal is to make Obama […]

World AIDS Day: Action begins with each of us…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Maybe if its ominous presence didn’t live in my own back yard infecting my neighbors, I would be oblivious to its existence. And maybe, just maybe, since no one in my family has been recently diagnosed with this disease, it would just go away and I’ll be asked to only write articles around […]

What Do You Call a Black Man With a J.D.?

Tweet (Akiit.com) A “gangbanger,” apparently, if you are the owner of the Boston club that expelled dozens of black Harvard and Yale students and alumni last weekend on suspicion of being criminals. Ask D. Omavi Harshaw, who was there. It was hard to tell if the several dozen black Harvard and Yale graduate students and […]

Why Walter Kimbrough is the ‘hip-hop college president’…

Tweet (Akiit.com) Philander Smith is a small historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was pretty known for being pretty much unknown. In HBCU circles, Philander Smith didn’t have the name cachet like the Howards and Spelmans of the world, and within the state of Arkansas, it was overshadowed by the larger University of […]

The Failing Promise of Public Education…

Tweet (Akiit.com) We, the American public, hold it as an article of faith that those responsible for devising and implementing public policy have our best interests at heart. Our best minds are hard at work, striving to make the world a better place. Our elected officials are dedicated to protecting our freedoms, increasing our prosperity, […]

Black kids can’t read: What are you prepared to do about it?

Tweet (Akiit.com) The statistics in the November 9, 2010 New York Times article, “Black Boys Score Far Behind White Students,” leave one speechless. According to the report entitled “A Call for Change” released November 8 by urban schools advocacy group the Council for Great City Schools, only 12 percent of black males are proficient reading […]

The case for Clyburn as Minority Whip…

Tweet (Akiit.com) With our country and the Democratic Party at a crossroads, it is important that we have a leadership team in place that recognizes and reflects the strength and diversity of both the Democratic Caucus and our great nation.??? ?As Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, I have worked closely with Congressman James E. […]

Why Denzel Washington is still ‘Mr. Right’…

Tweet (Akiit.com) During the golden era of Hollywood, Humphrey Bogart was the man. There was something about Bogey, as he was affectionately nicknamed, be it his dashing good looks, quiet charisma, or the brooding, intense “cool” that endeared him to audiences and made him into the quintessential “leading man.” Everyone who followed borrowed something from […]

Sell-Outs at the NAACP…

Tweet (Akiit.com) For decades the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fought the good fight against racial discrimination. The organization was instrumental in defeating Jim Crow and discrimination in the work-place; it led the charge in establishing voting rights for all and equal access to quality education. Even now the NAACP does some […]

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