(Akiit.com) For the last 40 year’s government policies aimed at African Americans have helped create crumbling, crime ridden, drug invested, urban communities with little to no real job or educational opportunities. Low income rural areas have been forgotten. If African Americans think the solution is to vote as usual for ...
(Akiit.com) The American Literary Translators Association is absolutely thrilled to announce the inauguration of the Peter K. Jansen Memorial Travel Fellowship. The aim of this award is to bring young, emerging translators to the annual ALTA conference—but not just any young, emerging translators. We’re looking to award it to translators ...
(Akiit.com) The most persistent fear I have repeatedly overcome is a fear of rejection. The irony of this people-pleasing fear is that it can manifest in a lot of behaviors, one of which is solitude. Without consciously connecting your fear with your choices, those whose core fear is rejection can ...
(Akiit.com) Jacklyn Milton narrates her miracles of love and all she has learned through her life as a wife, mother, grandmother, and caterer. In her new book, she shares many whispers of love, cherished memories, rich family heritage, and recipes for meals that earned her raving accolades. Maya Beecham, a poet, ...
(Akiit.com) The list of over 360 artists who have recorded a Rose Marie McCoy song includes some of the biggest names in the business: Nat “King” Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ike & Tina Turner, Shirley Caesar and many other legendary artists. I don’t know of ...
(Akiit.com) With the Democratic primary season upon us, political pundits have wondered whether Hillary Clinton will enjoy the same enthusiastic support from the African-American community in her presidential bid that President Barack Obama received. Others have wondered whether she actually deserves the same level of allegiance from African-American voters. Based ...
(Akiit.com) The conventional wisdom is that the GOP candidate who poses the far greater peril than Donald Trump can’t possibly win the GOP presidential nomination, and would have absolutely no chance in a general election. The result is that few have actually taken the time to closely scrutinize Ted Cruz’s ...
(Akiit.com) I once heard Al Sharpton say that if you were not getting arrested during the 1960s in America, he would have to question your leadership around racial justice issues. While I do not often agree with Sharpton, I full heartedly agree with that statement. So, this begs the question: ...
(Akiit.com) Most people do not understand the differences between Sunni and Shia Islam. For that reason, we wanted to set the record straight today by presenting you with some excellent information. We’ll try to keep things as simple as possible because there is no need to overcomplicate the situation. Also, ...
(Akiit.com) Here are two scenarios on January 20, 2017. That’s the first day on the job for the 45th president of the U.S. Scenario one. President Sanders or Clinton, unlike President Obama on his first day on the job, are faced with a GOP controlled House and a GOP controlled ...
(Akiit.com) When it’s all said and done, and the 2016 political season has come to an end – two things will have assuredly happened. First, we will have elected a new President of the United States. Second, the tone of electoral politics will have changed forever in the United States. ...
(Akiit.com) Bernie Sanders has a 100 percent rating from the NAACP. He endorsed the presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson in both 1984 and 1988. He marched with Dr. Martin Luther King. He was a member of both the Congress on Racial Equality and the anti-racist Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in ...