(Akiit.com) Once again, the repulsive face of terror has appeared on our homeland, our own soil. It is not a headline in the news about what has happened in some other place in the world. Once again, we see the blood of our own countrymen shed at the hands of ...
(Akiit.com) One year ago, a white supremacist shot and killed nine parishioners at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. A little less than a week ago, another shooter consumed with hate shot and killed 49 people at the Pulse night club in Orlando, Florida, wounding 53 more. Overwhelmed ...
(Akiit.com) There is a big problem in our educational system, and it is persistent. Black children are being kicked out of school more than White children on a regular basis and in large numbers, according to a white paper co-authored by the National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), titled, “The ...
(Akiit.com) Beyond communication, there are several reasons why speaking English in America is beneficial: doing so promotes assimilation, unity and success. So why would the Obama administration issue a joint policy statement from his departments of Education and Health and Human Services advising educators to instruct children in the language ...
(Akiit.com) However great the shock of the massacre in Orlando, it is only a matter of time before we start hearing again the fact-free dogma that “diversity is our strength.” If there is any place in the Guinness Book of World Records for words repeated the most often, over the ...
(Akiit.com) What Constitutional authority gives Obama the power to dictate that all schools in the United States make their bathrooms available to everyone according to their self-proclaimed so-called gender identity juxtaposed to the biological sex they were born? What Constitutional authority allows Obama to deny funds to schools that refuse ...
(Akiit.com) Muhammad Ali was, among other things, a proud Black man. He embraced his Blackness, and often referred to it. He is often quoted for saying he had no quarrel with the Vietcong, but less frequently quoted for saying, in the very next sentence, “the Vietcong never called me a ...
(Akiit.com) “If not for the teachers that I had at PS 276 in Canarsie and Mark Twain Junior High School in Coney Island, New York, I would not be alive today. Maybe I’d be in jail today. But those teachers, they chose to invest in me and to see hope ...
(Akiit.com) June is National Soul Food Month so I’m sharing a few quick thoughts on how to make it a little healthier. Merriam-Webster.com defines soul food as, “the type of food traditionally eaten by African-Americans in the southern U.S.” I define it as the food I grew up on. Growing ...
(Akiit.com) Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky’s velvet glove sentence of 6 months, of which he’ll serve only three months, to former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner after his rape conviction was no aberration. The case of Brian Banks, falsely convicted or rape, and who served five years, before exoneration, was ...
(Akiit.com) Hillary Clinton must be cringing right now. This has been a bad week for the Democratic presidential frontrunner. First, the FBI announced an investigation into potentially illegal donations made to Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor and fundraising he did for the Clinton Foundation. Next, the State Department ...
(Akiit.com) The danger that Rep. Donald Trump, practitioner of questionable business practices, inveterate bully, racist, sexist, demagogue and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee for president of the United States, presents to American society was never more evident than in how he behaved last week amid a flurry of negative news ...