Rock The Vote In The 2012.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The 2012 Elections will offer the electorate a vast difference in choices for President. Watching the Republican candidates for President get scarier and scarier with their conservative and ultra-conservative predictions only show how desperate they are defeat President Obama. The general election debates should be interesting. However, this election is not going to […]

Rush Limbaugh Insults Taxpayers.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The Pentagon’s defiant pledge to stick with the Rush Limbaugh show no matter what bumps up against a few hard and insulting realities. The Armed Forces Network that carries the Limbaugh show is not a private business, corporation, or proprietorship that can do whatever it pleases with its money, personnel, operations and policy. […]

Black Students: Face Harsher Punishments in School.

Tweet (Akiit.com) More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to a report to be released Tuesday by the Education Department that raises questions about whether students of all races are disciplined evenhandedly in America’s schools. Black students are more than three […]

Octavia Spencer Wins Oscar “The Help” Movie.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Octavia Spencer inspired her formidable character in “The Help,” but the actress turned into a softy Sunday as she accepted an Oscar for the role. “Oh, thank you,” a tearful Spencer said as many in the audience rose to their feet. She expressed gratitude to her family, her colleagues from “The Help” and […]

Tyler Perry’s “Good Deeds” – Movie Review.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has it all, or so it seems, between serving as CEO of a thriving computer software company and his impending marriage to a successful, if shallow, San Francisco realtor (Gabrielle Union). The dedicated, driven executive was handpicked by his mother (Phylicia Rashad) over his hot-headed brother, Walter (Brian White), […]

Gas Prices, Re-election President Obama.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Soaring gasoline prices are threatening to undercut President Barack Obama‘s re-election prospects and offering Republicans an easy target. With prices pushing $4 a gallon and threatening to go even higher, Obama sought Thursday to confront rising public anxiety and strike back at his GOP critics. Obama said dismissively that all the Republicans can […]

African Americans Sue Iowa For Employment Discrimination.

Tweet (Akiit.com) A judge will soon decide whether to grant thousands of black employees and job applicants monetary damages for hiring practices throughout Iowa’s state government they say have disadvantaged them for decades. Experts say the case is the largest class-action lawsuit of its kind against an entire state government’s civil service system. The plaintiffs, […]

African American, Black American or Just American?

Tweet (Akiit.com) The labels used to describe Americans of African descent mark the movement of a people from the slave house to the White House. Today, many are resisting this progression by holding on to a name from the past: “black.” For this group – some descended from U.S. slaves, some immigrants with a separate […]

Birth Control Coverage.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The crisis is clear. Chronic diseases are crushing healthcare. As people live longer, chronic diseases have skyrocketed, accounting for nearly 75 percent of the nation’s annual $2 trillion health expenditures, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. 7 out of 10 deaths among Americans each year are from chronic diseases. Heart disease, cancer and […]

Will The Community Have A Say On Its Impact?

Tweet (Akiit.com) In this time of government contraction, municipal services reduction and fiscal scrutiny, the nation’s largest county, Los Angeles County, is undergoing a massive revision of its general plan. The general plan represents hundreds of BILLIONS in resource allocation based on a regional and local population growth forecast that will take place over the […]

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