(Akiit.com) Hello, my name is Jennifer Jones Austin. I am a 41 year old mother of two young children. On September 23 of this year, I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Just days before I was walking around feeling fine, taking care of my family, going to the gym ...
(Akiit.com) Despite a sour economy and crippling unemployment, blacks are more optimistic about their progress in America than at any time in the past 25 years, according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Tuesday. Pollsters and political analysts say Barack Obama’s election as the country’s first black president ...
(Akiit.com) NEW YORK (AP) – R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass, who had been one of the most electric and successful figures in music until a car crash 28 years ago left him in a wheelchair, has died of colon cancer. He was 59. Before the crash, Pendergrass established a new era ...
(Akiit.com) It is hard to believe that anyone would use the tragic earthquake in Haiti as an opportunity to spew racist hate speech. In light of the devastation in that island nation, who would exploit the victims’ suffering for political points, make fun of them, and blame them for their ...
(Akiit.com) Sometimes questions are commands. When we ask “Could you open the window?” we are not inquiring as to whether the person is physically capable of performing the action. We are politely telling them to open the window. In the same way, the question the media has been asking over ...
(Akiit.com) Revolution is a curious thing. Some claim to be revolutionaries or about a revolution, but ignore the root word “evolution,†which means that there must be some growth and progressive development taking place in order to have an intrinsic revolution. For example, the so-called “Sexual Revolution†in America was ...
(Akiit.com) It looks like the word “Negro” is back in style these days, for better or for worse. And it appears that white Americans are most eager to blow off the dust and put the term to use. It all started in 2007 when Rush Limbaugh began playing a song ...
(Akiit.com) Lately I seem to oversleeping as my body has worn down… Yes lack of exercising has taken a toll on me literally… I miss being able to jump around at will… Yes playing with the kids without every getting tired, etc… Well let me read over this cure for ...
(Akiit.com) Well college football has officially become professional as coaches seem to be jumping ship lately… Yes chasing after the money and could care less about their team… I thought many was about nurturing the next generation but that doesn’t seem to be the case… Anyway I must pick up ...
(Akiit.com) Technological changes in the last decade made it so that you could fit your entire music collection, thousands of songs, into a contraption the size of a credit card. But beyond the boom of MP3 players, iTunes and the Internet, pop music itself changed dramatically, especially the sounds that ...