(Akiit.com) Virginia Thomas’s seemingly strange voice mail to Brandeis University law professor Anita Hill demanding that she apologize for “why you did what you did with my husband” drew, snickers, derision and puzzlement. The old charge that Thomas sexually harassed Hill caused a national uproar during his Supreme Court confirmation ...
(Akiit.com) In the late 1980s, a little group called NWA came out of Compton, California to capture the hearts and minds of music fans around the world. A drug dealer named Eazy-E put together enough money to lift “gangsta rap” out of the streets of L.A. and into the living ...
(Akiit.com) Unequivocally, a property foreclosure should be the last resort on a defaulted loan. It is — and has always been — the product of a painful and humiliating economic hardship that has long-term negative effects on one’s credit history and subsequent ability to build wealth. Recently, several banks have ...
(Akiit.com) The biggest sports story of the week has been Sports Illustrated’s piece on Josh Luchs, the agent who admitted to paying more than 30 NCAA football players money from 1990-1996. Every reporter, analyst, talking head and person with a forum has weighed in. Paying players is a major recruiting ...
(Akiit.com) What’s the big deal, anyway? In two weeks I’ll be 30. The big three-oh. The end of my 20s. The dirtiest of birthdays. But I can’t for the life figure out why this is such a big deal. Back in December, when The Washington Post profiled me, my sarcasm ...
(Akiit.com) It was vintage Louis Farrakhan. The controversial Nation of Islam leader delivered a free-wheeling, take no prisoners speech at the sold out Atlanta Civic Center speech on June 26 to a wildly cheering audience. He knocked Jews for allegedly controlling the entertainment industry, and lambasted black athletes and entertainers ...
(Akiit.com) ATLANTA (AP) — A federal judge revoked rapper T.I.’s probation Friday and ordered him back to prison for 11 months, according to a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. The Atlanta native, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., was in federal court here following his arrest last month ...
(Akiit.com) There she stood right beside her man: an attractive, God fearing and loyal middle aged woman holding the hand of her fallen pastor husband. He walked her out ever so gently–held her close, and kissed her lips for all to see as he ushered her back to her seat ...
(Akiit.com) Considering his controversial explosion onto the scene with N.W.A in 1988, Ice Cube is a far cry from his Straight Outta Compton days and even further away from where you imagined he’d be 20 years after his solo debut, Amerikkka’s Most Wanted. His ninth studio album, I Am The ...
(Akiit.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — A stopgap spending bill that’s needed to avert a government shutdown on Friday advanced in the Senate as lawmakers prepared to head for the exits for the midterm elections. The measure easily advanced, 83-15, Tuesday on a procedural vote that puts it on track to pass ...
(Akiit.com) What does one do with a woman who routinely obsesses about masturbation, drag queens, fetishes, Madonna and Britney Spears, nude sunbathing, psychics, freak dancing, and Lord of the Ring’s author J.R.R. Tolkien? Answer: You make them a Republican Senate candidate. The woman in question with the prurient interest in ...
(Akiit.com) News that Bethany Storro’s acid attack was indeed self-inflicted is beyond disturbing. It’s downright heartbreaking. And it’s not just because Storro is obviously sick. What many news reports are obscuring in the wake of confirmation that Storro’s previously reported August 30, 2010 acid attack in Vancouver, Washington is indeed ...