(Akiit.com) President Barack Obama should specifically address disparities in black unemployment, foreclosures, education and health care, the National Urban League says in its annual “State of Black America” report. Despite the progress represented by the election of the first black president, blacks are twice as likely to be unemployed, three ...
(Akiit.com) Poor Chris Brown. Poor Rihanna. The only people who know what really happened between them are those two people, yet, the entire nation is spinning a multitude of tales and using each of them to represent whatever story they want told. For those against domestic violence, Chris Brown now ...
(Akiit.com) Remember reading those “Choose Your Own Adventure” novels as a child? You would come to a crossroad in the story where you had to decide a course of action for the characters. Each decision was followed by more decisions, and made for several possible endings in just one book. ...
(Akiit.com) March Madness has officially started the time of year when thousands of avid and casual fans are watching each game with the intense focus that serious investors exhibit when watching the ticker symbols scroll across. Fans are monitoring the results of each game to see if there picks are ...
(Akiit.com) JACKSON, Miss. — Down here in the Deep South, calls to bring back the hanging noose are coming from an unlikely source: a 62-year-old, black Republican mayoral candidate in Mississippi’s largest city. Long-shot George Lambus acknowledges his inflammatory platform has made some residents of Jackson slam doors in his ...
(Akiit.com) On the eve of Barack Obama’s election last fall as the first African-American president, television seemed to be leaning toward a post-racial future. In October two prominent cable networks — CNN and Comedy Central — began new programs that featured black hosts, a development that was notable because so ...
(Akiit.com) The “Audacity Of Greed†is what President Obama’s next book should be called. Never could he have imagined how tough it would be getting out of an economic recession (borderline depression) when he signed up for the presidency. He knew the job was tough when he took it, he ...
(Akiit.com) AIG ignited the national firestorm of rage with its shell out of $160 to $600 million in tainted bonuses to its tainted executives. But what has gotten almost no attention is a big reason that AIG had to stiff the government and everyone else. That’s the role that the ...
(Akiit.com) The well-worn script reads like this. A protest group blasts a video game manufacturer, its designers, actors, and writers for dumping a game on the market loaded with racially insulting and demeaning stereotypes. The video game team yelps that the game is pure entertainment, has some blacks or Latinos ...
(Akiit.com) Dear Girls, *Rihanna has apparently gone back to Chris Brown and is also refusing to testify against him in court. I wish her well but I think she’s making a foolish decision in going back to a man who beat her like a dog minutes after he accepted a ...