(Akiit.com) DALLAS, TEXAS – “More than 100 years ago, Harriet Tubman was quoted as saying that: ‘If I could have convinced more slaves that they really were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.’ As you sit there in awe and wonder, questioning your ancestor’s inability to be aware of ...
(Akiit.com) BOSTON, MASS — Damn, not again I silently thought to myself as I watched this young black boy approach my truck with a can in his hand while stopped at a red light on my way home from work. Now I know what you’re thinking times are hard these ...
(Akiit.com) Men with high blood pressure, particularly African-American men, are often unaware they have the condition, according to a new study. Researchers found that of more than 1,500 young and middle-aged adults with high blood pressure, men were one-quarter less likely than women to know they had the condition. And ...
(Akiit.com) The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has promised Americans a new kind of politics – “change we can believe in.†Who could’ve suspected that the change he was referring to was a reversion to the failed policies of 30 years ago? In response to the rising price of ...
(Akiit.com) I still don’t know whether to howl with laughter or shake my head in disgust at the crude and silly race baiting antics of the National Black Republican Association. It recently announced that it’s launching a series of radio ads on presumptive Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama. The ads ...
(Akiit.com) Now that I have your attention, you have to know that the title is far from the truth. At least it is for any sane person, but not for a growing number of Black women who are now using the R. Kelly acquittal to bolster their claim that Black ...
(Akiit.com) In several speeches, Barack Obama has used an easy, if imprecise, formulation to express his despair over the high incarceration rate of young black men. “I don’t want to wake up four years from now and discover that we still have more young black men in prison than in ...
(Akiit.com) Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama received a lot of (generally positive) media coverage for his sermon last Sunday delivered before more than 3,000 worshippers at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. It was basically a “tough love†speech castigating Black men who father children but fail to stay ...
(Akiit.com) Like legendary Roman Fiddlers, African Americans stood starry-eyed in June when the numbers showed Senator Barack Obama would be the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee. In unison with the race-neutral Obama campaign African Americans too have turned a blind eye to the fact that black joblessness is twice that of ...
(Akiit.com) As I drove down the street today, I couldn’t help but notice all the farm land… It was a time in which there were trees all over the place, but now one can see for days… Alot of people are now back to making a living off of the ...