(Akiit.com) As my daughter and I talked in the kitchen over the weekend, she asked me if I’d seen the photo circulating on social media. I told her I had not. She proceeded to find the image on her phone and show it to me. I sighed, rubbed my forehead ...
(Akiit.com) Most Americans don’t stay up nights worrying about “voting rights” reforms in the belief that they are needed to eliminate what progressives call “barriers to voting.” A September Morning Consult poll found that 44% of U.S. adults believe voting rules are not strict enough, while “only” one-third believe it’s ...
(Akiit.com) In 1972, President Richard Nixon visited mainland China, opening the door for diplomatic relations between the two countries. It was a dramatic visit, as Nixon became the first United States President to visit the communist nation. Nixon met with Chinese dictator Mao Zedong, who is considered the world’s greatest ...
(Akiit.com) In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from David Goodhart’s 2017 book, “The Road to Somewhere,” and the ...
(Akiit.com) In 1995, we warned in our magazine Africamerica that one of the great problems of humanity would soon be forced migration––mainly because of the wars and internal crises that would take place in various countries (even if these crises were often instigated from abroad). In December 2019, Congresswoman Karen ...
(Akiit.com) The political and legal movement to criminalize abortion in the U.S. is on the brink of its biggest victory in 50 years. Most at risk are those who are already among the most vulnerable in our country: Black and brown women and LGBTQ people who will be denied access ...
(Akiit.com) Those of us who have long criticized Roe v. Wade for usurping the power of legislatures to make serious policy decisions must now contemplate the reality that We the People may yet get a chance to legislate on this fraught matter. Hold the brass bands. Are we capable of ...
(Akiit.com) Benjamin J. Lambert IV, a member of one of the most prominent Black families in Virginia’s public service history, lost his battle to prostate cancer on Monday, June 3, 2019. He was only 52. His father, Virginia Senator Benjamin J. Lambert III, his grandfather, and four uncles also all ...
(Akiit.com) A favorite term used by “progressive” leftists is the word “reimagine.” Don’t be deceived as the word is basically a euphemism to cover up tearing down and removing that which they want erased. Example: “Time to reimagine policing” means defunding police, free bail, freeing felons and replacing law enforcement ...
(Akiit.com) The profit-maximizing corporations that covet your “digital health” data hide behind nonprofit umbrella groups that pose as public interest do-gooders. These vaccine passport profiteers are turning millions of human beings into walking QR codes in the name of fighting COVID-19 and under the guise of bringing “normalcy” back. It’s ...
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