(Akiit.com) President-elect Barack Obama asked the White House if his family could move to Washington earlier than normal, but aides say the White House couldn’t give them the official guest house as early as his family wanted. The Obamas had asked White House officials to move into Blair House about ...

(Akiit.com) It seems that as time changes, nothing seems to ever change as it relates to African American issues in our society. Growing up in the 1950s I often heard the refrain, that blacks were the last hired and the first fired. That trend continues as National Public Radio, a ...

(Akiit.com) I haven’t been doing much of anything lately, as winter has arrived… Body feel so tired, as I will need to start exercising again… Need more energy, as in a few weeks I shall be visiting las vegas nevada with a few friends… We shall gamble, and just have ...

(Akiit.com) The proposition seemed fairly clear and logical: If transformation into a post racial society is to be real and substantive it must necessarily be about more than race and race pride; it must be about ideas. And if that is the case then opposition to one that shares a ...

(Akiit.com) Merchandise Cottage Industry And Its Impact On The Economy… Barack Obama’s election to the Presidency of the United States has had a residual effect on the economy in ways that are not (yet) reflected on the New York Stock Exchange. Barack Obama merchandise is huge. T-Shirts, hats, buttons, coins, ...

(Akiit.com) Three weeks after announcing he would not seek another term as chairman of the NAACP’s national board, veteran civil rights activist Julian Bond said Tuesday that he has changed his mind. Bond said in an interview on “The Tom Joyner Morning Show” that he was flooded with calls from ...

(Akiit.com) As chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee, state Sen. Seth Harp (R-Midland) thinks he’s found a way to save money: Consolidate some public colleges. It’s the kind of suggestion that can look good on paper, especially in harsh economic times, but it’s a lot harder to pull off ...

(Akiit.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — The first child born at the White House was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. The second child born there was his property — the African-American baby of Jefferson’s two slaves. Slaves not only helped build the White House, but also for decades men and women ...

(Akiit.com) William Tweedle, a residence hall director at Morehouse College, wants students at the historically black men’s school to get “In the Zone.” That’s the zone where there’s no cursing, no saggin’ pants, and no use of the word whose plural spelled backward is “saggin.’ ” All are beneath the ...

(Akiit.com) One of President Woodrow Wilson’s famous quotes reads as follows: “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we ...