(Akiit.com) Rapper/actress Queen Latifah will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Simmons School of Management leadership conference. The 28th annual event, which takes place May 5 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA, will include skill-building workshops and educational sessions. In addition to the keynote addresses from ...
A $120 million lawsuit has been filed against Janet Jackson over claims that her two bodyguards grabbed him and choked him. (Akiit.com) Leonard Salati says the alleged assault occurred at Club Marquee in February 2004. According to the lawsuit, Salati attempted to slip Jackson a note when her security team ...
(Akiit.com) There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of Black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young Black men. The question that remains is will we lose ...
(Akiit.com) Lloyd Polite, the young singer known to most as Young Lloyd, has announced that he is moving beyond just singing by creating his own production company entitled Young Goldie Productions. Lloyd was first presented with the opportunity to create his company when he signed to Sho Nuff Records in ...
If the man who could be our first black president has a white mother, and yet Toni Morrison says we already elected one in Bill Clinton, then what’s black and white is pretty gray. (Akiit.com) Since before he started a historic run for the presidency, Barack Obama has told the ...
(Akiit.com) LAKELAND – In a culture where speaking openly about having AIDS often causes people to shun or pity you, Rae Lewis-Thornton bares her soul and shares the most personal parts of her life with strangers. In the 21 years since she was diagnosed with HIV, and 14 since that ...
Editor’s Note: More than a half million African-Americans have died from smoking-related diseases over the past decade. That’s enough people to fill the cities of Atlanta, New Orleans, Kansas City, Mo., or Cleveland, Ohio. Yet, “cigarette smoking is the single most preventable cause of premature death in the United States”, ...
(Akiit.com) If at first you don’t succeed in Georgia, try again in New York. At least, that’s what a woman who claims that Chris Rock is the father of her 13-year-old son is planning to do. Kali Bowyer told Georgia’s Statesboro Herald Thursday that she will be refiling a paternity ...
(Akiit.com) CBS has announced that they have fired Don “Nappy-Headed Hos” Imus for his controversial comments regarding the Rutgers women’s basketball team last week that caused a national outcry. So what? How about getting those “nigga lovin’, ho slappin’, bitch callin'” rappers dropped from their record labels? Can we get ...
(Akiit.com) NEW YORK, April 13, 2007 (UPI) — Dakota Staton, a 1950s jazz and blues singer known for her sassy style, has died in New York at the age of 76. Staton, in declining health for years, entered the 1957 music scene in a big way with a debut album, ...