(Akiit.com) In America, the title of people from Africa has slowly completed a full circle that started 360 years ago. The names in the circle have gone from African to almost all the way back to African. All Africans were initially negroes to the first group of Portuguese, from the ...
(Akiit.com) Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles about the effects of integration in America and whether or not the decisions made during the stormy years of 1954-1968 civil rights movement has in fact, improved black Americans’ status in the country. “You do not wipe away ...
(Akiit.com) Within the last 15-20 years, the progress of Black Americans has drastically declined and statistics show increasing incarceration rates, rises in single parenthood, too many abortions, low number of marriages, immoral and indecent incidences of high profile celebrities elevated, and (Black on Black) homicide/crime numbers disproportionately higher than any ...
(Akiit.com) A disproportionate number of the children entering and staying in foster care are black, even though children of all races are equally as likely to suffer abuse and neglect, a federal watchdog agency says in a new report. States can do more to find permanent homes for black children, ...
(Akiit.com) Last month, about one hour after my arrival in Atlanta to visit a family member, I was confronted, once again, with the burden that all black men in this country face on a daily basis. I was standing in front of my relative’s home in an upscale neighborhood, surveying ...
(Akiit.com) “How long shall they kill our prophets, while we stand aside and look? Some say it’s just a part of it, we’ve got to fulfill the book.†—Bob Marley *My column evokes starkly divergent emotions from person to person. For people who are the target of my chastisements, the ...
(Akiit.com) Racial integration has failed because it has barely been tried. – John Hope Franklin, black historian and author The screams of hatred and the horrific stares encountered in her walk to the front door of Little Rock’s Central High is a scene that Elizabeth Eckford will never forget. To ...
(Akiit.com) Drug use and the resulting risky behavior are the biggest factors in the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States, and Hispanic and black men are more likely to be infected this way than others, an AIDS expert told a national AIDS conference in Miami Beach on Monday. ”Drugs, ...
(Akiit.com) “I sure hope Timothy doesn’t come to school today.” It was when that thought came to mind, says Frederica Wilson, surveying the faces at the conference table in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools headquarters, that she knew she had a problem. After all, she was a school principal, a ...
(Akiit.com) Black men are in big trouble. And if black men are in trouble, the black family and the whole black community are also in trouble. America has already lost one whole generation of black boys to poor education, chronic unemployment and underemployment, hyper-incarceration, and senseless violence. Many black men ...