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(Akiit.com) Willie E. Brake, an African American entrepreneur who was born with a disability, is the Founder of All About Technology, a Detroit-based business that is proudly celebrating 25 years of being ahead of the curve in expanding technology access, delivering trusted computer sales and service, and helping bridge the digital divide ...
(Akiit.com) Lily Bell, an African American educator for more than 40 years based in Macon, Georgia, has released a new book, Beyond the Myth: Morality and the Black Community, that compellingly dives into the contradictions and silences that have shaped generations. As an author, speaker, and podcast host, she is on a ...
(Akiit.com) Perhaps there are those of you who remember the 1968 film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood about a secret World War II mission to rescue an Allied General deep inside Germany at the fictitious Schloss Adler. The movie itself was fiction, but it was indeed an action thriller. ...
(Akiit.com) Years ago people enjoyed entertainers without making celebrity culture part of their identity. Somebody might buy a CD, watch an interview on television, laugh about gossip at work the next morning, then continue living their actual life. Now everything feels different. Some folks spend more time following celebrities than ...
(Akiit.com) Some children arrive at school already knowing how to recognize letters, flip through books, and sound out easy words. Other youngsters walk into class confused from the very beginning because nobody spent much time helping them beforehand. That early difference matters more than people think. A teacher can work ...
(Akiit.com) A lot of families across the South know how to get through hard times. That knowledge got passed down from grandparents, aunties, uncles, and parents who learned how to survive with very little. Folks figured out how to make meals stretch another day. Lights stayed on somehow. Children still ...
(Akiit.com) Living in Charlotte, NC long enough will make you notice something real quick. The city loves talking about growth, but everybody is not growing with it. Every year another luxury building goes up. Another expensive apartment pops up near neighborhoods where regular Black working folks been staying for decades. ...
(Akiit.com) A lot of heavy brothers do not even realize they are addicted to fast food until their body starts talking back to them. Down here in the South, grabbing something from a drive thru became part of everyday life for many men. Folks work long hours, sit in traffic, ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump’s three presidential campaigns were contests between establishment and insurgent, steadfastness versus change, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” against “burn it all down.” Trump did not offer new ideas. Rather, the vagueness of MAGA and America First promised an idea-generation machine powered by a pair of ...
(Akiit.com) A lot of folks think a big man can drop pounds just by skipping dessert for a few nights and walking around the block. That sounds good in theory, but life does not work that clean once your frame has carried extra size for years. Coming from the South, ...
