(Akiit.com) Ever feel like your ideas are never heard at work? It can feel as though you’re at the mercy of what everyone else wants, but struggle to influence decisions and decision makers. You can turn things around by shifting your approach. If you do, you’ll also shift opportunities your ...
(Akiit.com) Recently, my 17-year-old brother David told me the story of a group of girls from his high school hosting a party wearing only bikinis while their teenaged male guest were asked to come fully dressed in “street clothes“. As I went into my elder speech about lost girls who ...
(Akiit.com) The college experience can be a wonderful thing. As my fraternity’s song goes: “College days swiftly pass, imbued with memories fond, and their recollection slowly fades away.” One of the most beautiful things about the experience is the socializing. In a manufactured environment, young men and women begin to ...
(Akiit.com) The new “So In Style (S.I.S.)†Barbie dolls have been praised for their authentic African-American facial features and their spectrum of skin complexions — but what’s up with that hair? Only one of the three S.I.S. dolls (“Trichelleâ€) has realistic, dark, curls. The other two (“Grace†and “Karaâ€) sport ...
(Akiit.com) It is good that the President has ceased attempting to sell his public option health care initiative on the strength of a comparison to the United States Postal Service. Americans will not soon be convinced of the economic viability of an expansion of public healthcare when it is compared ...
(Akiit.com) Very few of us were surprised to read a recent Los Angeles Times article in how Los Angeles City Councilman Bernard Parks put the FBI on County Supervisor, Mark Ridley-Thomas, the person that defeated (and demoralized) him the same night America elected its first black President. Ridley-Thomas’ landslide was ...
(Akiit.com) The only way a person can make informed decisions and use medicines safely is to know what information is important to obtain from health professionals, how to incorporate the medicine into your daily lifestyle, how to manage side effects, when to seek medical help and how to keep track ...
(Akiit.com) The black journalism students here at Syracuse often come to me to find out how the industry works. They sometimes instinctively wonder if their professors’ stories about being in a CBS newsroom in 1982 are going to help them survive in a world run by Twitter, Myspace and Facebook. ...
(Akiit.com) President Obama will be traveling to Denmark to lobby on behalf of Chicago, his hometown, for the 2016 Summer Olympics. He will be the first American president in modern times to pitch for a city at the International Olympic Committee meeting. By the mere fact that he is making ...
(Akiit.com) President Barack Obama did not speak it first nor proclaim it to be in place. There has been talk of a “Post-Racial†society, but simply put, it is not yet here. And it can not be here when racist groups are sprouting all over the nation to oppose President ...