(Akiit.com) Wesley Snipes next starring role could easily be based on his own life. Most of us know that Snipes has been embroiled in tax difficulties and many of us have simply assumed that he was another movie star stuck in the same trap as other greedy millionaires, deciding to ...
(Akiit.com) President Obama has reached a compromise with Republicans in Congress to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans for two years, in exchange for a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits. The question is whether Obama’s deal on taxes is the lesser of two evils, and whether this ...
(Akiit.com) NFL season is coming to an end and my colts may not make it… Yes playoffs seem far off now and it’s hard to accept that… Peyton Manning has literally lost the last 3 games on his own… Oh well let me print out this cheap car insurance article… ...
(Akiit.com) Too many black politicians and front organizations funded by telecommunications companies are working against the interests of African Americans, says the co-founder of ColorOfChange. The Internet is the most democratic communications network ever created. In a world where our community cannot count on the mainstream media to tell our ...
(Akiit.com) Earlier this week, an 88-page report titled Building a Grad Nation, was released by the educational foundation, America’s Promise. America’s Promise was founded by General Colin Powell, and is currently chaired by his wife, Alma Powell, and the foundation tasks itself with bringing coalitions together, corporations, non-profits, and teachers ...
(Akiit.com) As we enter the final days of 2010, one of the outstanding issues of the past 12 months is the inadequate education that the majority of African American children and young adults are receiving throughout the United States. All parents, and in particular, African American parents, want the best ...
(Akiit.com) President Obama should turn a deaf ear to the silly chatter about him not running again. He’s heard plenty of that in the weeks since the midterm election drubbing. Much of the chatter hasn’t come from the usual, hostile GOP and Tea Party suspects. They’ve flatly said their goal ...
(Akiit.com) Maybe if its ominous presence didn’t live in my own back yard infecting my neighbors, I would be oblivious to its existence. And maybe, just maybe, since no one in my family has been recently diagnosed with this disease, it would just go away and I’ll be asked to ...
(Akiit.com) A “gangbanger,” apparently, if you are the owner of the Boston club that expelled dozens of black Harvard and Yale students and alumni last weekend on suspicion of being criminals. Ask D. Omavi Harshaw, who was there. It was hard to tell if the several dozen black Harvard and ...
(Akiit.com) Philander Smith is a small historically black college in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was pretty known for being pretty much unknown. In HBCU circles, Philander Smith didn’t have the name cachet like the Howards and Spelmans of the world, and within the state of Arkansas, it was overshadowed by ...
(Akiit.com) We, the American public, hold it as an article of faith that those responsible for devising and implementing public policy have our best interests at heart. Our best minds are hard at work, striving to make the world a better place. Our elected officials are dedicated to protecting our ...
(Akiit.com) The statistics in the November 9, 2010 New York Times article, “Black Boys Score Far Behind White Students,” leave one speechless. According to the report entitled “A Call for Change” released November 8 by urban schools advocacy group the Council for Great City Schools, only 12 percent of black ...