(Akiit.com) Living in Charlotte, NC long enough will make you notice something real quick. The city loves talking about growth, but everybody is not growing with it. Every year another luxury building goes up. Another expensive apartment pops up near neighborhoods where regular Black working folks been staying for decades. ...
(Akiit.com) A lot of heavy brothers do not even realize they are addicted to fast food until their body starts talking back to them. Down here in the South, grabbing something from a drive thru became part of everyday life for many men. Folks work long hours, sit in traffic, ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump’s three presidential campaigns were contests between establishment and insurgent, steadfastness versus change, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” against “burn it all down.” Trump did not offer new ideas. Rather, the vagueness of MAGA and America First promised an idea-generation machine powered by a pair of ...
(Akiit.com) A lot of folks think a big man can drop pounds just by skipping dessert for a few nights and walking around the block. That sounds good in theory, but life does not work that clean once your frame has carried extra size for years. Coming from the South, ...
(Akiit.com) Every summer growing up, somebody older in the family was always reminding people to drink water. Didn’t matter if you were outside cutting grass, sitting on the porch, or running around with cousins all afternoon. Soon as somebody said they felt weak, the first thing they heard was, “Go ...
(Akiit.com) Back when I was younger, people around me barely talked about blood pressure unless somebody ended up in the hospital. That was usually how families found out something was wrong. One minute a person looked alright sitting at the cookout laughing with everybody else. Next thing you know, folks ...
(Akiit.com) In a Beijing conference room recently, I noted to a counterpart that the United States and the Soviet Union took more than a decade to build toward nuclear coordination after the Cuban Missile Crisis. “That did not end well for the Soviet Union,” was the reply. As Donald Trump ...
(Akiit.com) Young people now blame capitalism for poverty, racism, high prices, even climate change. They listen to people like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who says, “Capitalism … is the absolute pursuit of profit at all human, environmental and social cost. That is not a redeemable system.” Give me a break. Yes, ...
(Akiit.com) In politics, fear has a color. For most of American history, that color has been Black. No ad has taught that lesson more brutally than the Willie Horton ad of 1988. It showed the face of a Black man convicted of murder. It blamed Michael Dukakis for a furlough program. ...
(Akiit.com) The May 12 inflation report confirmed what many Americans already know in their bones: while economists debate indicators and politicians boast about growth, ordinary people increasingly feel as though they are running on fumes. Prices rise, stabilize briefly, and then rise again, while wages lag behind the escalating costs ...
(Akiit.com) What we are seeing in America today is something that Black people haven’t experienced in a very long time—citizenship with no workable Voting Rights Act in place. Immediately after the Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais ruling, five southern states wasted little time in redrawing new congressional voting maps that ...
(Akiit.com) Caring for aging parents involves making many small decisions quickly. One of the most immediate, and often contentious, is determining what to do with their home. Not whether to move, but whether the space they live in now is safe for them. Few homes are designed for the way ...