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Planning for Single Motherhood…

January 8, 2011 by  
Filed under Health, News, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) If you want to have a baby and don’t have a partner, should you take the leap on your own before it’s too late? “I never thought I’d be here.” That’s what Beth Espy thought of her life about two years ago. She was 40 years old, single and childless. “Time goes by […]

Why Boehner won’t declare death to ‘birther-ism’…

January 8, 2011 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) On the first day of the new Congress, as Republicans led a peculiar and self-righteous reading of the United States Constitution, America was fed a healthy dose of the pomp and comedy that lies in store for us this year. Similar to a house party where out-of-control relatives show up with extra alcohol, […]

Are you fiddling while the ‘hood is burning?

January 8, 2011 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Students of classical history are familiar with the old axiom of Nero fiddling while Rome burned, and for those who are not, it simply means that leadership preoccupied with the frivolous often preside over a declining state of affairs. Today this term has a likewise axiomatic meaning, as some in Black leadership posture […]

The McEducation of the Negro…

January 5, 2011 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Franchising is an outstanding model for selling Big Macs. But it can be toxic to classrooms. Something wasn’t right at the high school that Darwin Bridgers’ son attends, so he sat in on the class to see for himself. All morning long, the instructor at the Washington, D.C., charter school pointed to a […]

Black Caucus to confront harsh new climate on Capitol Hill…

January 5, 2011 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) For 40 years, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has used it’s bully pulpit to advocate, persuade, stall, negotiate and, ultimately, to legislate. Through many highs, a few lows and more than a couple attacks, the CBC now finds itself in a unique position — the defender of historic policies that have a positive […]

Why the n-word should stay in ‘Huck Finn’…

January 5, 2011 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) New South Books press people had barely sent word out that the editors would remove any mention of the n-word from their upcoming edition of Mark Twain’s immortal classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when the backlash began. Critics are calling it censorship, a slap at freedom of speech, and a gross distortion […]

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