(Akiit.com) There’s a good chance that former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle will be charged in the videotaped New Years day killing of Oscar Grant, a young African-American. But charging Mehserle with the fatal shooting of Grant and getting a conviction is a far different matter. On the surface, the ...

(Akiit.com) When it comes to China, the numbers are truly astounding. The Asian giant has the fastest growing economy in the world – averaging roughly 10 percent growth per year for the past 25 years. By way of contrast, if we in the United States grow by just three percent, ...

(Akiit.com) As he takes office as the 44th President of the United States Barack Obama still declines to discuss Black reparations. But it is a question Obama will have to address sooner or later. Claims for reparations for being held in slavery haven’t reached a U.S. president’s desk since that ...

(Akiit.com) The expectations of the New Year has us all expecting change on some level. Change in the nation’s political direction; change in the global situation; change in the economy; change in the job markets; change in the schools; change in our local communities; change in our personal lives. Funny ...

(Akiit.com) Three African American executives are trying to raise $50 million to create a black-owned bank holding company with some help from the federal government. The entity, MBF LP, would be designed to make capital investments in and own parts of new and existing black-owned U.S. banks, said William Michael ...

(Akiit.com) President-elect Barack Obama has said the African-American church transformed him from a skeptic to a believer. He has spoken appreciatively of its vibrant worship and written about how the black church experience has moved him to tears. And he has credited African-American congregations for their work in helping the ...

(Akiit.com) Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush has screamed long and loud that the Senate’s bash of disputed Illinois senate appointee Roland Burris is racism. Burris took the cue and chimed in that he also whiffed race in the Senate Democrats’ obsession with keeping him out of the Senate. Rush and Burris ...

(Akiit.com) The first time I heard the phrase “Kinder, gentler nation” was in the 1980’s. It was a Republican slogan and I knew even then that it was mostly bullcrap. I knew it was propaganda designed to hide the greedy, selfish warmongers who wanted the world to believe that they ...

(Akiit.com) The good news is that the Bailout will make a difference. The Federal government’s response to America’s limping economy will slowly begin to ease some of the pain and hysteria. It’s a recession–we knew that before they told us. We’ve survived recessions. At some point in the next couple ...