The public reaction to Bloody Sunday in Selma – where civil rights marchers faced clubs and dogs in a police riot – led directly to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. 42 years later, the anniversary of Bloody Sunday enjoyed national attention when the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack ...
Recently I was talking to a friend of mine who was, as they say, of the Caucasian persuasion. He and I have had political conversations over the years. He’s usually on the conservative side and I have what I consider to be a bonafide liberal, left of center point-of-view. We ...
When Ohio Congressman Tony Hall introduced two resolutions in 1997 and 2000 asking Congress to officially apologize for slavery, he was blasted from pillar to post. Irate whites called the resolution wasteful and racist. Many blacks ridiculed it as much too little and much too late. But the slavery issue ...
Kenneth Eng has been crucified for writing in Asian Week that blacks are weak-willed, Asian hating, and were complacent in subjection to slavery. But was he totally wrong? Did he have the right to say his hurtful words? Did Asian Week have the right to publish them? And was the ...
Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah (Akiit.com) Deatri King-Bey has stepped out of the box and given her readers a Black fairy tale in Beauty And The Beast that I really enjoyed. Set in modern day Chicago; the story centers around millionaire business mogul, Bruce Maxwell, the beast and his beauty, Nefertiti ...
Book Reviewed by Kam Williams (Akiit.com) “The experimental exploitation of African-Americans is not an issue of the last decade or even the past few decades. Dangerous, involuntary, and non-therapeutic experimentation of African-Americans has been practiced widely and documented extensively at least since the 18th Century… The problem is growing… No ...
Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah (Akiit.com) Can This Marriage Be Saved? Dave and Clarice have been married forever; yet the things that they do not know about one another could fill up a small house. That is the basic problem in their marriage. They have grown apart over the years, rather ...
Reviewed by Jayne Cubbage (Akiit.com) Breastlessness by Nicole Bryant is both memoir and breast cancer resource guide. In the first half of the book, Bryant shares her own experience with the disease and she spares hardly a detail. She writes on first learning of her diagnosis, the denial and indecisiveness ...
Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah (Akiit.com) Ohio Poet, Kenyatta is a man of many words. His book Forever Sentimental-AGAPE LOVE is Volume Three in the Forever Sentimental book series, collections of poetry that speak straight from the heart. A gifted wordsmith, the poems are well written. They flow like a lazy ...
Reviewed by Jayne Cubbage (Akiit.com) Inner-City Interludes by Hoezee probably won’t go down in history as a literary classic. Perhaps as an ode to the “hood†and the characters who play a role in the daily drama of life there but little else. The book provides a voice long overlooked ...