(Akiit.com) Here’s the selected checklist of black organizations, groups and individuals GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has flatly refused to speak to, reach out to or even acknowledge exist. They include: The NAACP, the National Urban League, The National Association of Black Journalists, Black Pastoral groups, and a host of Black ...

(Akiit.com) This past Monday, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered his speech on national security and his vision to defeat the Islamic State. The speech connected various talking points, but for the professional national security strategist it lacked a clear and focused doctrinal base. Mr. Trump would have been better ...

(Akiit.com) International trade figures heavily in the presidential race. Presidential candidate Donald Trump said, “Hillary Clinton unleashed a trade war against the American worker when she supported one terrible trade deal after another – from NAFTA to China to South Korea.” And adding, “A Trump Administration will end that war by ...

(Akiit.com) A friend of mine was conducting a diversity class for a group of police officers, mostly White, in a northern Ohio city. All was going well until he said, “Let’s talk about ‘Black Lives Matter.” He said the room exploded. The officers were offended that he would bring up the ...

(Akiit.com) With a woman heading the ticket of the Democratic Party, it may be challenging for us to remember that women have had the right to vote for less than a century (and Black folks less that). But the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote was ratified ...

(Akiit.com) Hillary Clinton is doing what Democrats should have been doing all along and that’s looking and sounding and, if given the chance, acting like FDR. This means going big, big, big and fully using government to radically ramp up new programs and initiatives to tackle everything from the nation’s ...

(Akiit.com) Whether pondering a new job or a new relationship, knowing whether a long-term commitment is right for you can mean the difference between misery or “happily ever after.” No situation comes without challenges, of course, but when the situation is right, it will not feel like a burden. You’ll ...

(Akiit.com) Since Donald Trump effectively won the Republican Party nomination by winning the New York primary in May, keeping up with every outrageous statement and small lie and Big Lie he utters has become even more difficult. Instead of becoming “more presidential,” as he and his aides promised then, he’s ...

(Akiit.com) I don’t know whether you have been following this, but there is a very disturbing trend that has been underway. Women in cyberspace are under attack. These attacks are very much focused on programmers and video game designers. These attacks are nothing short of vicious. Yet, the attacks have ...

(Akiit.com) News One, a Radio One, Inc. (radio-one.com) digital news outlet for news and information about for and about Blacks operated by Interactive One (interactiveone.com), launches news division dedicated to coverage of educational news and policy affecting Black America. Division created in tangent with the documentary “Saving Tomorrow, Today: The Curriculum ...

(Akiit.com) Respected educator Suzanne M. Henderson, Ph.D., has announced a groundbreaking project highlighted by the launch of her new book, “The Torch: Motherwit, Guideposts and Stories to Purposeful Womanhood.” This book seeks to derail and debunk the ideology that a young woman’s value and purpose is only linked to over ...

(Akiit.com) Early 20th century modernism ignored classical rules of expression. But late 20th century postmodernism blew up those rules altogether. Barack Obama was a modernist candidate. He turned out vast numbers of young and minority voters, mastered new social media, and in 2008 overturned the old-guard Democratic furniture such as ...