(Akiit.com) As I was preparing for an interview with R&B crooner Brian McKnight several years ago, I had a very interesting experience. On my way home from work I stopped at Walgreen’s drugstore to pick up some batteries and film for my camera and mentioned to one of the young ...

(Akiit.com) 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. What a powerful sermon the young pastor preached today about that four letter word that begins with “F”. That special word that has robbed so ...

(Akiit.com) The saying goes, “Our children are our future”, but what if our children don’t outlive us? Frightening statistics tell the story. According to The American Obesity Association, 30% of kids ages 6-11 are overweight and 15% are obese, setting them up for increased risk for diabetes, asthma, high blood ...

(Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made one speech in March to damp down the furor over his relationship with his controversial former pastor Jeremiah Wright. He made another speech at the NAACP convention in July. Other than those two speeches he has not uttered another word about racial issues ...

(Akiit.com) Like many I need a vacation… Need to head over to Wimco as I heard there were a few new Barbados villa rentals listings… Would love to head out of the country… Literally free my mind while enjoying the beach… Yeah the wife and kids would love that also… ...

(Akiit.com) I received a rather rude email from a local minister who took umbrage with my failure to support Barack Obama for president. I was disappointed that rather than do what Jesus would have done and offer a reasoned and well-thought out rebuttal to my column, this man of the ...

(Akiit.com) Maybe if I didn’t know the history of how this country came to be. Maybe if I wasn’t keenly aware of how we came to be here in this country to begin with. Maybe if the first ship arriving with its precious human cargo to this country hadn’t been ...

(Akiit.com) In a 2007 interview with the editorial board of Washington Post, Senator Joseph Biden offered these thoughts on the racial achievement gap in education, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four or five percent that are ...

(Akiit.com) What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” —Sir John Lubbock In America, far too many people make claims about what exists without investigating any further than their own small circles. They then take those broad assumptions and pretend that the assumption is reality for all of ...

(Akiit.com) NEW YORK, NY — Barack Obama’s audience for his acceptance speech likely topped 40 million people, and the Democratic gathering that nominated him was a more popular television event than any other political convention in history. More people watched Obama speak from a packed stadium in Denver on Thursday ...