(Akiit.com) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that radio host Don Imus’ comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team were “disgusting” and she was pleased he was fired. Imus called the women players “nappy-headed hos” — racist, sexist remarks that resulted in a barrage of protests ...
(Akiit.com) After getting Home Depot to advertise in African-American newspapers, and pressuring Office Depot and T-Mobile Wireless to do likewise, black newspapers have a new target: Kohl’s Department Stores. Kohl’s is the target of a boycott orchestrated by Kimber, Kimber & Associates, a Fresno, Calif., advocacy advertising agency that represents ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – While the number of African-Americans who frequent the Internet continues to grow, White Web users maintain a good lead amidst the so-called digital divide, according to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study. What was once the “digital divide†has evolved into the “digital dimmer ...
(Akiit.com) Radio Shock Jock Don Imus’ statements about the Rutgers University Women’s Basketball team have been widely condemned. His subsequent apology and remorse has been and will continue to be debated. You would like to think that someone with his bully pulpit would be smart enough to realize that words ...
(Akiit.com) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81. Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the ...
(Akiit.com) COLUMBIA, S.C., April 12 — The NAACP plans a summit Saturday to address racism on college campuses months after white students at Clemson University held a party mocking black stereotypes and after the founder of a white supremacist group spoke there earlier this week. A student organization invited Jared ...
(Akiit.com) On Sunday, when more than 200 Major League Baseball players wear No. 42 jerseys to honor the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in the national pastime, it will be a reminder of past promises and a troubling present. The commemoration of Robinson’s historic debut will ...
(Akiit.com) The other day while returning home from a morning of running errands, my fourth grade son lamented that we were harming the environment by driving. I offered to pull the car over and let him walk home lest he cause any more damage. He thought about it a moment, ...
Lawmaker: Barring Coretta King portrait from capitol worse than Imus slur (Akiit.com) ATLANTA – A bid to hang Coretta Scott King’s portrait in the state Capitol died in a legislative committee Wednesday, with the chief supporter comparing the failure to Don Imus’ slur against the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. ...
Black restaurateurs willing to invest in good taste (Akiit.com) Corey and Lamonica Smith are among a set of rising young African-American entrepreneurs who are adding flavor to the restaurant scene while helping to revitalize Milwaukee’s urban corridor. The Smiths are the owners and operators of Soche – it rhymes with ...