(Akiit.com) For the past year, I have lived with the terrible case of Mitrice Richardson. The surface circumstances about the case are now well known. Mitrice, a 24-year-old African-American woman, with emotional challenges, was held and then released alone by Los Angeles County Sheriffs from a police station in the ...
(Akiit.com) For the first time in more than a generation, education is near the top of the American agenda; President Obama has called it “the economic issue of our time,” and has called for America to regain world leadership in the share of citizens with college degrees. We at United ...
(Akiit.com) Men have to take their fair share of the blame in the gender breakdown because too many of us believe that it’s cool to tuck our emotions away. And too many of us think that having a discussion about feelings is for women and gay men. Consequently, our voice ...
(Akiit.com) Black women continue to be at greatest risk for lethal violence in intimate relationships. As the tragic case of a murdered marriage counselor shows, thinking you can help an abusive partner may be one of the most dangerous mistakes you can make… Love apparently brought Tonya Hunter paroxysms of ...
(Akiit.com) My friend and I watched looters gleefully make mad dashes into the corner grocery store; their arms bulged with liquor bottles and cigarette cartons. Suddenly, my friend shouted out as if he was speaking to an audience, “Maybe now they’ll see how rotten they treat us.” The “they” was ...
(Akiit.com) After a nine-month investigation into alleged ethics violations against Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) the House Ethics Committee has released its report. The Committee has found that the congresswoman improperly used her office to assist OneUnited, a Massachusetts-based bank in receiving $12 million in federal bailout funds in December 2008. ...
(Akiit.com) Fox News host Glenn Beck recently compared America under the Obama administration to the Planet of the Apes. Fox News doesn’t like black people, so is it any surprise that blacks don’t tune in? Recently, Think Progress reported that according to the Nielsen ratings, only 29,000 black viewers have ...
(Akiit.com) Most of us are aware that African Americans face the most dire job prospects of any ethnic group in America. As of last month, black unemployment stood at 15.4 percent, compared to 8.6 percent among white Americans. Additionally, the economy is showing signs that it may not recover the ...
(Akiit.com) When I was younger, I remember hearing cliches like, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Of course I didn’t believe any of that stuff. I didn’t do very well in high school, but in college, I was a study machine. I just knew that pushing hard ...
(Akiit.com) Even if we could convince 95 percent of white people that black Americans are still mistreated in the U.S., there’s no chance for a second civil rights revolution… It’s good music, this idea once again in the air in the wake of L’affaire Sherrod — that America needs to ...
(Akiit.com) I now know the terror of gun violence firsthand. A carload of teens fired four shots at me and drove away, laughing. Fortunately, they missed… Last week a 13-year old boy named Robert Freeman was shot 22 times while riding his bicycle in front of his home on Chicago’s ...
(Akiit.com) It’s been nearly a year since Kanye West made a spectacle of himself as the MTV video music awards by declaring country singer Taylor Swift an undeserving winner of the “Best Female Video” award over Beyoncé during her acceptance speech. While he tried his best to keep things moving ...