(Akiit.com) About a month back, the National Urban League presented a statement to the National Press Club devoted to the “black male crisis,” saying that this country risks losing its “greatest untapped resource.” In “State of Black America 2007,” the League said: “Empowering black men to reach their full potential ...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… No, it’s “de plane, de plane!” (Akiit.com) Eddie Murphy is set to star in a big-screen adaptation of Fantasy Island, the Aaron Spelling-produced primetime soap that ran from 1978-1984 on ABC and made a white-suited star of Ricardo Montalban, who played the island’s mysterious ...
(Akiit.com) A disk jockey filed a misdemeanor battery complaint against comedian Tracy Morgan, saying the NBC sitcom star inappropriately groped her at a South Florida radio station Friday morning. Yuleika De Castro told police that Morgan smelled of alcohol as he touched her shoulders and arms, kissed the back of ...
(Akiit.com) Race is and will continue to be an issue that we all must grapple with in America. Regardless of your economic or social status in our great country, the question of race permeates everything we do. The euphoria around the meteoric rise of Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign has ...
(Akiit.com) On November 12, 1946, a packed crowd gathered in Atlanta for the premier of one of that year’s much anticipated films. Disney Studio had pulled out all promo stops to make sure that the cash registers jingled for the opening of Song of the South. The film was its ...
Columbus, OH (Akiit.com) – For many generations we have heard about the many benefits of breastfeeding our young versus formula feeding. Not only for the obvious strong bonding between mother and child but also for the various health benefits as well. However despite all the advocating of breastfeeding done over ...
Editor’s note: Jeff Johnson is a correspondent for BET and former host and producer of “The Jeff Johnson Chronicles.” He previously served as national youth director for the NAACP and vice president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network. (Akiit.com) — Hip-hop’s alleged vulgarity, sexism and misogyny have been formally and ...
(Akiit.com) All four service branches of the military are reporting dramatically lower rates of enlistment by African-Americans. Traditionally, a quarter of all new recruits have been black. But since the start of the war in Iraq four years ago, the number of new black recruits has dropped by almost half. ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – The prospects are bleak. Genocide is no exaggeration. Incarceration, AIDS, unemployment and the school drop-out rate are all problems challenging Black people in America—Black males in particular—and according to this year’s annual report released Apr. 17 by the National Urban League (NUL) entitled “The State of Black ...
(Akiit.com) BATON ROUGE, LA. The National Conference of Black Mayors unveiled a partnership Friday with environmental consultants Envirosource and Historically Black Colleges and Universities aimed at studying the impact of landfills on African-American communities. Robert Bowser, mayor of East Orange, N.J. and president of the National Conference of Black Mayors, ...