(Akiit.com) The most recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that blacks represent 15.6 percent of the overall 10 percent of unemployed American workers. Even with the slight improvement in unemployment rates among African-Americans, recent reports note that college-educated black men can’t find work and that a minority’s ...
(Akiit.com) Whew. I’m glad that’s over. Last night President Obama, struggling to get a grasp on the proverbial broom he needs to clean up the incompetence and corruption left by the Bush-Cheney administration, finally laid out his plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan. He told a skeptical nation that ...
(Akiit.com) Marriage is hard. The current economic downturn has caused distress and turmoil in many marriages. Black men are losing jobs at a faster rate than black women, representing the largest gender gap across ethnic groups. The 17.1 percent unemployment rate for black men is not media hype but a ...
(Akiit.com) The very idea of a black unemployment crisis would start to sound as antique as expressions like “interracial couple” and “token black” if we could just lose two of the things currently plaguing black America. First, we have the most crippling myth distracting the black community. I don’t mean ...
(Akiit.com) As we approach the end of the millennium’s first decade, it is clear that many of the lessons from the twentieth century have gone unheeded. With America embroiled in two wars, unemployment in the double-digits and a population divided over the policies of America’s first Black president, Black Americans ...
(Akiit.com) Three years before he took it upon himself to pee on a little girl’s campfire on national television, rapper Kanye West’s face appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine. Next to the purposefully scowling image was the cover line, “Brash genius.” West is a lot of things. Ambitious, ...
(Akiit.com) Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve written about a primary result of Radical Feminist propaganda—The Bitter Woman. Of course, bitter women abounded to launch attacks on me, alleging misogyny, while refusing to pay attention to their own misandry. But Radical Feminist propaganda and its assault on love, family ...
(Akiit.com) Public intellectual, philosopher, writer, and activist Cornel West is the author of several books about the various aspects of American culture. Well known for delving into complex issues ranging from race to religion, politics, and popular culture, Dr. West has never been an individual to shy away from speaking ...
(Akiit.com) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site. Google placed a text ad above the image titled “Offensive Search Results” that ...
(Akiit.com) For the second year since 1994, four African-American undergraduates have won Rhodes Scholarships, which carry with them the privilege of studying at Oxford, England’s oldest and most venerated university. Named for the South African mining magnate, Cecil John Rhodes, the scholarships, worth about $50,000 each for two years, have ...