(Akiit.com) As Donald Trump prepares to become the 45th president of the United States, despite the fact that one of his first selections for national office, head of HUD, is a black man, Ben Carson, the ongoing charges of racism and anti-black rhetoric continue to dominate the national media. Now a ...
(Akiit.com) There is a civil rights crisis in Atlanta. While I’m not specifically referring to the battle of words between Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) and President-elect Donald Trump, it makes this the proper time. Atlanta is full of modern-day plantations. The policies of leaders like Lewis have led to the entrapment ...
(Akiit.com) Have you ever run out of energy after you start reaching for a goal? When you started out, you were motivated. But distractions popped up. Your consistency dropped off. You had other goals, too, and they took more time and energy than you initially expected. And before you knew it, ...
Prominent African American Advocate Calls Brain Health the greatest 21st Century Civil Rights Issue.
(Akiit.com) At a time when our country is poised to celebrate the remarkable life and legacy of the late Martin Luther King Jr., today author and advocate Dan Gasby is joining forces with the American Brain Foundation (ABF) to raise awareness of the tremendous racial disparities that exist between African Americans and non-Hispanic ...
(Akiit.com) Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute (“PPGJ“) is raising funds for our first youth education project. We seek to motivate and inspire 1,000 young people to become superheroes for justice who make a difference in the world. At Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute (PPGJ), we aim to motivate and ...
(Akiit.com) If you’re looking for a loan, you have two basic options – secured and unsecured. The difference between the two is that a secured loan has some type of asset attached to it as collateral, while an unsecured loan does not. Secured loans benefit both the borrower and the lender. ...
(Akiit.com) If America’s competitors intentionally tried designing a tax system to destroy the American economy, they probably couldn’t come up with a better plan than the way the United States currently taxes its own businesses. To fully appreciate the stupidity of the American corporate tax, consider this simple example: If you ...
(Akiit.com) In some ten days, we will have the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. There can be no doubt that the election of Mr. Trump enabled a philosophical stay of execution for America. In these past eight years, we have been heading down the failed road of progressive socialism, which ...
(Akiit.com) Actress Meryl Streep’s political diatribe at the Golden Globes awards isn’t the only surprise attention-getting provocation from the event. Nominee film “Hidden Figures,” a box-office hit about the true story of three black women mathematicians who played important roles at NASA in the early days of the space program, is ...
(Akiit.com) I have been thinking about the controversy surrounding so-called fake news, much of which has been discussed in connection with the November 2016 elections. It is important to understand that “fake news” is a form of propaganda called “black propaganda.” Black propaganda refers to information that is manufactured to appear ...
(Akiit.com) SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement following the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination to be U.S. Attorney General: “For decades, America’s working families and communities of color have struggled to build a better life in an economic and political system that favors ...
(Akiit.com) In Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant wrote: “…knowledge therefore of every understanding, or at least of the human understanding, must be by means of concepts, not intuitive, but discursive.” With the start of anything new, there is always an opportunity to improve and avoid the mistakes of the ...