WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – National Urban League President Marc Morial, in NUL’s annual State of Black America address, this week, describes the underachievement of Black males as being among America’s greatest crisis. “This state of underachievement, with its devastating and far-reaching ramifications, is the most serious economic and civil rights challenge ...
(Akiit.com) Demeaning images of black women didn’t begin with those conjured by the words of disgraced shock jock Don Imus. There’s the rap music industry — the new focus of public ire — and a decades-long history of black men dressing in drag to portray loud, offensive and usually dark-skinned ...
(Akiit.com) Pittsburgh’s black newspaper, which reaches households in neighborhoods where gun violence happens often, is keeping a running tally of people killed in the city and county — to send a harsh message. The message is as layered as the problem is complex, says New Pittsburgh Courier publisher Rod Doss. ...
Democratic House member represented Southern California district (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON – Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, a seven-term congresswoman from southern California, died early Sunday of cancer. She was 68. Millender-McDonald died at her home in Carson, said her chief of staff, Bandele McQueen. The congresswoman had asked for a four- to six-week ...
(Akiit.com) E! Online reports that Anika Noni Rose has signed on to provide the voice of the title character in the upcoming Disney animated feature The Frog Princess. CNN previously announced that the Walt Disney Company will make history by introducing its first black princess in the animated fairy tale. ...
(Akiit.com) Following the death of Bishop G.E. Patterson, the Church of God in Christ (COGIC, Inc.) has transitioned its leadership. Bishop Charles E. Blake is now the official presiding prelate of the world’s largest African-American denomination. The COGIC General Assembly appointed Bishop Blake as the seventh Presiding Bishop of at ...
(Akiit.com) Lionsgate, the leading independent filmed entertainment studio, has forged two major partnerships in the faith-based entertainment genre, it was announced by Lionsgate President Steve Beeks. The Company has reached a distribution agreement with publisher Thomas Nelson, Inc., making Thomas Nelson the exclusive distributor of Lionsgate product in the Christian ...
Her beating in 1963 led to federal charges against Mississippi lawmen (Akiit.com) JACKSON, Miss. – Civil rights activist June E. Johnson, who as a teenager was beaten by white officials in a 1963 confrontation that led to federal charges, has died. She was 59. Johnson died Friday of kidney failure ...
‘Somebodies,’ based on ’06 Sundance film, is about group of black slackers (Akiit.com) NEW YORK – BET is making the first scripted series in its 28-year history, a sitcom about a group of black slackers. “Somebodies†is expected to premiere in October, Reginald Hudlin, BET’s entertainment president, said Wednesday. As ...
(Akiit.com) The Reverend Dennis Meredith’s mouth had to drop when his head deacon brusquely accused him of turning the church into a “sissy church†and left in a huff. Reverend Meredith had committed the unpardonable sin to the deacon and as it turned out hundreds of other black members at ...