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A Morally Inclement Climate.

April 14, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) April 4 was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of our nation’s prophet of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the same day we received new warnings from international scientists that our world remains headed towards an environmental climate catastrophe, this date was a sad reminder that before his death, Dr. King […]

A Moment for Black Women’ — My Take on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s SCOTUS Hearing.

April 14, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) The confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson were different. I was in the room, six or so rows behind her. I work in advocacy, so I’ve sat through a few committee hearings in my time. Some were emotional, some boring, most unmemorable. But this was different. For one, it was a Supreme […]

Movie Review; Everything Everywhere All at Once.

April 13, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) (**) She’s yanked, pushed and pulled. To here, there, everywhere. To times and places she couldn’t imagine. The very drably attired Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) owns and operates a laundromat with her nerdy looking husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). At least she thought he was her spouse. He […]

Far-Right Smears of Judge Jackson Show Why We Can’t Let Them Take Power.

April 13, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history this week when the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. That is cause for celebration. When Judge Jackson is sworn in as Justice Jackson later this year, she will become the first Black woman to serve on our highest court. And she will […]

Two Middle Class Racist & Angry White men Attempted to Lynch A Black FedEx Driver.

April 12, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) We have all  heard or listen  to the story and news that broke out about two racist and angry white men chasing down and shooting at an Unarmed innocent  black men making deliveries for his FedEx company. The Victim of this incident was 24 year old D’monterrio gibson, a hard working employee for […]

Brother Biden, Please Keep Another Promise Or Two.

April 12, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) I do this thing in my head with President Joe Biden. When he gets on my nerves, I often call him President. When I want something from him or want to thank him for something, I call him Brother Biden. As I write this, I thank him for our incoming Supreme Court Justice, […]

Black Enterprise Founder Earl Graves Sr., The Visionary.

April 12, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) It is not uncommon to have an unexpected crisis or hardship become the catalyst that guides a person to new opportunities and success. Amid challenging times, the situation may no longer be tolerable or even available as an option, forcing a person to move on to what can potentially be bigger and better […]

Hey Will Smith, Two Words: Dwight Clark.

April 12, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) “Almost everybody wants to be a hero.  … Do the thing so improbable, so mind-blowing, that you’ll never be forgotten.”    – From Hero in the Zone: Dwight Clark During my 10th-grade year, 1974-75, Dwight Clark was one of the most noticeable 12th graders to walk the halls of Garinger High School in Charlotte, […]

Media Collusion of Hunter Biden/Joe Biden Bombshell Story.

April 11, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) About three weeks before the 2020 election, the New York Post published a bombshell, election-changing story about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, that, if true, derailed Joe Biden’s claim to know nothing about his son’s multimillion-dollar influence peddling. The Post claimed: “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a […]

Putting Putin and His Men on Trial.

April 11, 2022 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) How could this be? Under our noses, social media and all, we now have photographs of a genocide. Are those mass graves full of innocent civilians, people whose only crime was that they were in the way of a madman and his army? What do you call that, if not a crime? Of […]

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