     (Akiit.com) This past weekend, I watched the film “Amazing Grace.†This marvelous film tells the story of the battle abolitionist William Wilberforce waged to end the slave trade in the British Empire. While watching the film, I pondered the fact that our understanding of the origins of our liberty ...
    (Akiit.com) Make sure you check out the special 30th anniversary broadcast of “Roots” beginning this Sunday night at 8:00 on TV One. “Roots” captivated the nation when it debuted on ABC in January of 1977.     Three decades later, this harrowing and inspirational saga of an African-American family’s proud ...
     (Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson will participate in the “All-American Presidential Forums on PBS,†moderated by Tavis Smiley, on June 28, from 9 to 10:30 p.m. ET at Howard University in Washington, D.C.     ...
     (Akiit.com) About 1,100 items owned by Michael Jackson and his famous family members will hit the auction block next month unless the King of Pop follows through with legal action to stop it.          “Mr. Jackson was not aware and he is extremely upset that his memorabilia was included ...
     (Akiit.com) Idris Elba just can’t stay out of the theater; the movie theater, that is.      The actor, fresh from his run in “Daddy’s Little Girls,†can be seen on the screen again in “The Reaping,†which opens today (Friday) in theaters nationwide.      The film stars Hilary Swank ...
(Akiit.com) Rapper Ludacris will make his only UK appearance on Apr. 14, during a performance at a popular nightclub. The rapper will perform one date at Zenn nightclub, which will be followed by a meet and greet with VIP fans. Promoters said that Ludacris, born Chris Bridges, was seeking to ...
(Akiit.com) RUSTON, La. (AP) — Former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson, who created a football powerhouse at the small, black college in northern Louisiana that turned out hundreds of NFL players, has died. He was 88. The soft-spoken coach spent nearly 60 years at Grambling State University, where he set a ...
(Akiit.com) In an unprecedented new study, an estimated 754,000 people are homeless across the United States-and many of them are black, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “We find most of these homeless people are men and, disproportionately, a large amount are black,” Brian Sullivan, a spokesman ...
(Akiit.com) Rapper Snoop Dogg recently appeared on a Holland based-talk show and had some unflattering words for frequent rap critic Bill O’Reilly. On. Mar. 29, Snoop appeared on the talk show Jensen! which is hosted by Robert Jensen. During the interview before his performance at The Milky Way club, Snoop ...
(Akiit.com) Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown has given birth to a daughter in California, her publicist said Tuesday. The baby, who weighs 5 pounds, 4 ounces, was born just after midnight Tuesday at St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica, said Nadine Bibi in an e-mail. “Baby is completely healthy with ...