(Akiit.com) Would you like to feel better during the menstrual cycle? Worry less about getting sick because you have a family to care for? Have enough energy to hold down a career, with some leftover for physical fitness and a vital sex life? Prevent common women’s aging ailments like osteoporosis? ...
(Akiit.com) Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele must have been struck by terminal amnesia. He yukked at and agreed with the swipe a radio caller took at President Obama. The caller called him “the magic negro.†That’s the goofy, tired, worn, ditty that tags Obama as a black man with ...
(Akiit.com) Barack Obama’s election to the presidency is historical, not magical. The spirit of his plight can be and must be shared. He has pulled up his pants of preparation and tightened his belt of commitment and action. We can, and we must do the same. Let’s pull up our ...
(Akiit.com) Four years ago the US Supreme Court took a big step toward righting a galling wrong. It joined nearly every other nation on the globe and banned teen executions. Now it should take the next big step and dump all laws that let states lock up juvenile offenders for ...
(Akiit.com) With a centennial celebration of Father’s Day coming next month, and a new president committed to supporting better parenting, liberals and conservatives alike say the political stars may be aligned for major progress in promoting responsible fatherhood. It’s an issue that’s been divisive in the past, even as research ...
(Akiit.com) I went to a Los Angeles crime scene last week that left a teenage girl dead and a 30-year-old paraplegic arrested for murder. If I’d driven by too fast, I’d have missed the small makeshift memorial of candles and teddy bears that marked the spot where another Black person ...
(Akiit.com) Wilmington, Florida -Black publishers of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) are concerned that there is nothing “designed” in President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package to do business with Black newspapers. Florida’s Black-owned media say they are taking a more direct approach to get a fair share of ...
(Akiit.com) There are as many violent women as men, but there’s a lot of money in hating men…” –Erin Pizzey, founder of the first modern battered women’s shelter. *Right now, a great deal of media time and personal discussion time is being spent on the Chris Brown beating of Rihanna. ...
(Akiit.com) Then Democratic Presidential contender Barack Obama did a prescient thing last October. He told an interviewer on a Colorado radio station that he thought the first 1000 days not the first 100 days would make the crucial difference for his presidency. Candidate Obama directly parodied the line from JFK’s ...
(Akiit.com) Are you one of those people who constantly say things like, “that’s just the way I am, and I can’t help it?†Maybe not, But I’m sure you’ve heard that phrase or something similar from folks before. Particularly in a day and age where self-acceptance is highly promoted, statements ...