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College: Why We Should Retire the HBCU vs. PWI Debate.

November 18, 2015 by  
Filed under Education, News, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) Recent events at University of Missouri have sparked national conversation and action in response to racism on college campuses. Previously, we saw UCLA Law and Harvard students express their distress, and now Twitter and Facebook users have created #BlackOnCampus to do the same. Students have also opened a conversation we’ve seen one too […]

Hunt Terrorists in Ol Paris Massacre, Not Witch-hunt Muslims.

November 17, 2015 by  
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) The instant news broke about the hideous bloodbath in Paris, the predictable happened. The tweets from the conservative echo chamber came fast and furious. They called for a total, all-out war, bashed immigrants, gun control advocates, liberals, the students at the University of Missouri, President Obama, lax security, permissiveness, and of course, Muslims. […]

Liberal Democrats; Destroying Your Vote.

November 17, 2015 by  
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) Voter ID laws have been challenged because liberal Democrats deem them racist. I guess that’s because they see blacks as being incapable of acquiring some kind of government-issued identification. Interesting enough is the fact that I’ve never heard of a challenge to other ID requirements as racist, such as those: to board a […]

Politics; The Ben Carson Flaps.

November 17, 2015 by  
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) Dr. Ben Carson’s whole life has been very unusual, so perhaps we should not be surprised to see the latest twist — the media going ballistic over discrepancies in a few things he said. Years ago, when I was writing some autobiographical sketches, I dug up old letters, to check out things that […]

Paris, France; Stop the Bleeding.

November 17, 2015 by  
Filed under News, Politics, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) There was a painful irony when France’s immediate response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was to close the borders. If they had closed the borders decades ago, they might have avoided this attack. Someone once said that the First World War was the most stupid thing that European nations ever did. Countries […]

The American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout® is November 19.

November 16, 2015 by  
Filed under Health, News, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) Every year since 1976, the third Thursday in November marks the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout, a day when smokers are encouraged to quit for the day and make a plan to quit for good. “Some people are able to quit on their own, without the help of others or the use […]

Black Americans for a Better Future Kicks Off Speakers Series.

November 16, 2015 by  
Filed under News, Weekly Columns

Tweet (Akiit.com) Black Americans for a Better Future (BAFBF) launches its inaugural Speaker’s Series Luncheon in the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, on Tuesday, November 17, 2015. The special guest for this series is the Honorable Boyd K. Rutherford, the Lieutenant Governor for the State of Maryland. In addition […]

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