(Akiit.com) The black males I work with suffer from hopelessness and delusions about life. Many are from single-parent homes and lack positive male role models to encourage, guide, nurture, discipline, and love them. While I applaud black mothers who have tried for centuries to fill this gap, fatherlessness is a ...
(Akiit.com) Keecha Harris is a registered dietitian, holds a doctorate in public health and is president of Keecha Harris and Associates Inc., a food systems and public health consulting firm. She is also a spokeswoman for the American Dietetics Association, a former columnist for MSN.com and an authority on African-American ...
(Akiit.com) Editor’s note: Long-time observers of African American reading habits are alarmed. On public transportation at least, African American romance novels and fiction seem have found a comfortable — and profitable — niche among adults. Rarely seen: history, science, cultural criticism. Even rarer, any book in the hands of a ...
(Akiit.com) With hate Michael Vick mob hysteria raging in the sports world and among the general public it seems Tasha Levin is about the only person that got it right about the embattled Atlanta Falcons quarterback. The Northeastern University student stood outside the federal courtroom in Richmond, Virginia where Vick ...
(Akiit.com) The spotlight was on politics at the National Urban League conference in St. Louis last week, but the agenda was all about expanding opportunity for black Americans. From pundits to preachers and from executives to teachers, three ideas echoed — lifting up the poor, answering the call to lead ...
(Akiit.com) A few weeks ago, I saw part of the Pan Africanist dream come true. It was during the closing ceremony at an African dance conference. To a man — and they were all men — the drummers and teachers came from Africa. To a woman — and we were ...
(Akiit.com) One of my four brothers graduated from the University of Iowa, but being a black male, I don’t think I want to spend too much time in the Hawkeye state. Only about 2 percent of Iowa’s population is black, but blacks are 13.6 times more likely than whites to ...
(Akiit.com) Are you black enough? Despite the rising American death toll in a divisive war, record gasoline prices and homes lost to foreclosure in historic numbers, this was the one question that I knew Sen. Barack Obama would be asked by Internet voters at the Democratic CNN-YouTube debate. It is ...
(Akiit.com) A recent report by the Washington D.C.-based Sentencing Project underscores something we already know: Blacks are being locked up in droves. And while the report says blacks, we know who it’s really talking about: black men. The criminal justice system is skewed. How often is “driving while white” an ...
(Akiit.com) When I was about 11 or 12 years old, every kid in my neighborhood used to look up to this guy called Baby Daryl. Baby Daryl was a bona fide drug-dealing, gun-toting gangsta on the west side of Detroit. While grown-ups would cross the street when they saw him ...