(Akiit.com) – Baltimore, MD: Veteran civil rights activist Julian Bond will not seek another term as chairman of the NAACP’s national board, saying the time is right to “let a new generation of leaders” take over the century-old organization. Bond, 68, has served as chairman since 1998. He announced Tuesday ...
(Akiit.com) If, as the essayist wrote, ‘irony gives birth to a deeper and less friendly understanding’, then here is a real mother for ya. In the days following the election of Barack Obama as our nation’s 44th president, my email in box was filled with notes proclaiming “another bold step ...
(Akiit.com) Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, was announced as chairwoman-elect of the Congressional Black Caucus at a Capitol Hill news conference Wednesday. She takes the 42-member caucus’ reins as its power seems ascendant. Members will lead the House Judiciary, Homeland Security and Ways and Means committees in the 111th Congress; another, ...
(Akiit.com) New Integrated Platform Connects Accomplished Blacks Through Events, Print and Online.. Prominent business leaders, Black professionals and entrepreneurs convened in South Florida on Tuesday to witness the launch of ICABA, a new multimedia brand that seeks to identify, connect and activate accomplished Blacks around the world. During the launch ...
(Akiit.com) It seems almost anomalous when Black men speak. If still waters run deep, so do the feelings of Black men. They are painfully and beautifully human. Too often their voices go unheard. And when their voices are heard, it is a rich and luminous moment, revealing the deepest insight ...
(Akiit.com) Long before Secret Service officials reported that President elect Barack Obama has gotten more threats against him than any other president-elect, the buzz from many African-Americans was: Do you think that they’ll try to do something to him? The “they†was take your pick, a lone, deranged crazy, KKK, ...
(Akiit.com) Since the election of the first Black president, many people have begun to amass great expectations. Some of those expectations are realistic and practical and will probably be met by the new Commander-in-Chief. However, some of those expectations are silly, selfish and based on the inane notion that President ...
(Akiit.com) He did not run from race, but he did not run on it. That’s a balance right that’s for the times. The great paradox in the election of America’s first black president is that Barack Obama broke a historic racial barrier without campaigning on a black agenda. This raises ...
(Akiit.com) By now, I am sure that you are aware of the fallout over the Nov. 4 election results that passed Proposition 8, an amendment to the state constitution to make marriage legal only between one man and one woman. And I have no doubt that many of you reading ...
(Akiit.com) On the evening of November 4th, 2008, I watched television news coverage of millions around the world celebrating the U.S. Presidential win of Barack Obama. One video image I found particularly startling: among a group of students on the campus of Washington D.C.’s Howard University was a young man ...