(Akiit.com) What, exactly, is ghetto? An Austin woman, fed up with negative media images of African-Americans and women, doesn’t want to know. Gina McCauley has launched a campaign against an upcoming show on Black Entertainment Television that she feels degrades and demeans. She’s had some success: Earlier this week, State ...
John Hoberman, ‘Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race’ (Akiit.com) Controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports New York — If African Americans have become overly obsessed with sports, the engagement or lack thereof by ...
(Akiit.com) An “alarmingly” high number of inner-city black young adults smoke and, for those trying to quit, several factors may conspire to thwart their efforts, research shows. A key factor, researchers found, is the widespread belief among 18- to 24-year-old black smokers and nonsmokers that smoking cigarettes is a normal ...
(Akiit.com) James Langston’s book, “GrandMamma’s Prayers is now available through Lulu Publishing Enterprises, Inc. NAPLES, ITALY, July 2007 – When we think of GrandMamma, we often think of food, Sunday afternoons, and church. GrandMamma’s Prayers records a simpler time in life when people cared about you, not because of what ...
(Akiit.com) Balancing Christian and spiritual living with being a black American in a world that seems to be falling backward in time instead of going forward? In the mid-1980’s, I read a book by Charles R. Swindoll titled “Strengthening Your Grip: Essentials in an Aimless World.” That book taught me ...
(Akiit.com) According to a recent report released by the Justice Department, the number of incarcerated Americans reached an all-time record last year. Local, state and federal officials jailed an additional 62,000 people as of June 2006 sending the prison population to 2.24 million people. The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) ...
(Akiit.com) Virginia, Alabama, Maryland, North Carolina and other states are making serial apologies these days, expressing remorse for past participation in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. As I have said before, while these actions are a good first step, they do not go far enough. The doctrine of White supremacy did ...
Sons should be respectful, but able to make sound decisions Being a “mama’s boy” is not a good thing. We don’t really want our sons growing up to be mama’s boys. But after sitting through a loud hip-hop performance by a 15-year-old at Rainbow/PUSH’s women’s luncheon Monday, and then hearing ...
(Akiit.com) Are you truly living the life you want to live? Are you as healthy and vibrant as you would like to be? Do you wake up every morning refreshed, energized and ready for whatever may come your way? Too many of us today are not able to answer yes ...
(Akiit.com) I am a rising junior at Spelman College. I am writing to encourage and solicit participation in what is becoming a national campaign to combat the negative, one-dimensional, stereotypical and misogynistic manner in which Black Entertainment Television portrays black men and women. Let me first explain how and why ...