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(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, ...
(Akiit.com) Every summer growing up, somebody older in the family was always reminding people to drink water. Didn’t matter if you were outside cutting grass, sitting on the porch, or running around with cousins all afternoon. Soon as somebody said they felt weak, the first thing they heard was, “Go ...
(Akiit.com) Back when I was younger, people around me barely talked about blood pressure unless somebody ended up in the hospital. That was usually how families found out something was wrong. One minute a person looked alright sitting at the cookout laughing with everybody else. Next thing you know, folks ...
(Akiit.com) In a Beijing conference room recently, I noted to a counterpart that the United States and the Soviet Union took more than a decade to build toward nuclear coordination after the Cuban Missile Crisis. “That did not end well for the Soviet Union,” was the reply. As Donald Trump ...
