(Akiit.com) It is easy to get the impression that America–and black communities in particular–are more violent than ever. We are regularly treated to gruesome crime stories on television news programs, and they often feature black perpetrators. When we are not watching the news, Law and Order, CSI, NCIS and other ...
(Akiit.com) Haiti will need help long after the television cameras have focused their attention elsewhere. But there’s one person who can keep the Caribbean nation in the spotlight. As international aid pours in to provide relief from the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti, development workers and NGO professionals are beginning ...
(Akiit.com) Funny, but Americans give automatic credibility to almost any statement that is made on the news and automatic credibility to the people making the statements. But one would think that after eight years of a lying moron in the White House that the American people would take a closer ...
(Akiit.com) As we hit the one-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, a growing chorus of critics argue that the Obama administration isn’t doing enough for black Americans. Leading members of the Congressional Black Caucus criticized the Obama administration for not specifically targeting black America’s unemployment rate in its economic ...
(Akiit.com) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King, lead off the final lap to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala., on March 25, 1965. Thousands of civil rights marchers joined in the walk, which began in Selma, Ala., on March 21, demanding voter registration rights for ...
(Akiit.com) …the smell of burnt gunpowder and wet cotton, the taste of cold fried chicken and cheap lipstick, the sounds of grown men weeping, of heavy wood hitting dark flesh, of rifles cocking and dogs snarling, tired bodies jumbled together in church buses and auto caravans, always dressed in their ...
(Akiit.com) The heartbreaking and pathetic scene I and a group of other American visitors witnessed at the small beach town in Northern Haiti still haunts me. We had no sooner arrived at the beach when a contingent of Haitian police and local officials frantically waved away a throng of the ...
(Akiit.com) Statements recently attributed to Senate majority leader, Harry Reid (D) Nevada regarding President Barack Obama, has opened yet another racial debate in so-called post-racial America. This time centering on the use or misuse of the word “negro,†in the new book “Game Change,†Sen. Reid is reported to have ...
(Akiit.com) I’ve resisted the temptation to write anything about the Harry Reid “controversy” for the past few days, but I have a couple of things to say. First, some of us need to step back and check ourselves before we criticize Reid, and second, some of these Republicans are still ...
(Akiit.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama is weighing a levy on Washington-rescued banks to help recover shortfalls in a $700 billion bailout fund and to help balance a budget that is looking increasingly grim amid an ongoing economic crisis. A senior administration official said Monday that Obama would seek modifications ...