(Akiit.com) CHICAGO — For African-American women, hair has been the battleground for definitions of beauty. And when it comes to their hair, no word is more incendiary than “nappy.” So when Don Imus described members of Rutgers University’s women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos,” he not only devalued a talented ...
(Akiit.com) The Rutgers’ women’s basketball team and coach C. Vivian Stringer were scheduled to appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Thursday as furor continues over remarks made about the team by radio host Don Imus. Stringer and the 10 team members will appear live via satellite, a spokeswoman for Harpo ...
Candidate faces first test on handling issues of race (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON — With the Rev. Al Sharpton leading calls Monday for radio host Don Imus to be fired over racially insensitive remarks, Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign avoided the controversy throughout the day. Not until Monday evening, five days after ...
(Akiit.com) HAMPTON — Hampton University has completely pulled its investments from Sudan and from companies that do business in the African nation, HU President William Harvey said Monday. University officials are taking a stand against the genocide in the nation’s Darfur region, Harvey said. “With the atrocities that the Sudanese ...
Revolutionary War Role Would Be Recognized (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Connecticut native’s decades-long fight for a monument to the thousands of black soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War took an important step forward recently when U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd and other lawmakers introduced legislation that would let it ...
(Akiit.com) An attorney for D.C. Council member Marion Barry is urging a federal judge to uphold a recent ruling that has kept his client and former mayor out of prison. The lawyer, Frederick D. Cooke Jr., formally asked Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan on Friday to uphold the ruling after ...
(Akiit.com) Joseph Blue has lived in San Francisco for 20 years and toughed out the drastic decline in its black population, a phenomenon that persists despite being recognized for decades as a problem. Neighborhoods that once thrived with African American culture and black-owned businesses have all but disappeared. “San Francisco ...
(Akiit.com) Rapper Omillio Sparks may be reunited with Roc-A-Fella Records in the coming weeks sources told Akiit.com. Sparks, born Kenneth Johnson, was signed to Roc-A-Fella Records by CEO’s Jay-Z and Damon Dash and was part of the State Property rap group, which featured Philly rappers Beanie Sigel, Freeway, Oschino Vazquez ...
(Akiit.com) T.I. may be faced with a lawsuit from Duke University, after the rapper arrived late and walked off the stage early during the university’s Cameron Rocks! concert that took place on Saturday (Apr. 7). According to Duke’s student newspaper The Chronicle, T.I. was paid $70,000 to perform for a ...
(Akiit.com) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Black leaders say they are on the move. They have seen enough. They’ve seen enough dying. They’ve seen enough suffering. They’ve seen enough labeling that comes with the stigma associated with the HIV/AIDS virus. During a recent three-day National Black Leader’s AIDS Mobilization Strategic Planning Summit, ...