(Akiit.com) *Forty. It’s a number I can’t get out of my mind. I’m not talking about 40 acres and a mule. Nor am I talking about 40 days and 40 nights. And I am not talking about 40 ounces of a malted, adult beverage. The number 40 that I can’t ...
(Akiit.com) The U.S. Senate recently reduced the sentencing disparities for possession of powder cocaine and crack, from 100-1 to 18-1. That’s hardly progress… The U.S. Senate recently reduced the sentencing disparities for possession of powder cocaine and crack, from 100-1 to 18-1. That’s hardly progress. Nothing symbolizes the conflicted state ...
(Akiit.com) Activists say the Obama administration has placed the war on terror above democracy in the Horn of Africa. Activists say the Obama administration has placed the war on terror above democracy in the Horn of Africa. Chris Flaherty, an American documentary film producer who’s married to a woman from ...
(Akiit.com) What happens when beauty, talent, charm, dignity and brains just aren’t enough? What happens when beauty, talent, charm, dignity and brains just aren’t enough? Long before her recent death at 92, Lena Horne had become a recluse, living alone with her memories. She had been a star for many ...
(Akiit.com) His nominee for the high court is qualified, but why weren’t more black women considered? His nominee for the high court is qualified, but why weren’t more black women considered? President Barack Obama needed only to look across his dinner table each evening or in the bed next to ...
(Akiit.com) According to some of the media I have read lately, I do not exist. Yet I live, breathe, and pen these words in support of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. I am an African-American law professor at Harvard who was recruited by Elena Kagan during her deanship. ...
(Akiit.com) The small country called Haiti’s new international fame comes at a huge price to its people. On January 12th 2010, mother earth shook during a 7.3 earthquake that left an estimated 230,000 Haitian people dead and another 300,000 injured. Underneath the rubble of debris, rescue workers found bodies of ...
(Akiit.com) Start spreading the news. LeBron James could be leaving today. And the New York Knicks want to be part of it in the worst way. New York City is rolling out the red carpet for the Cleveland Cavaliers forward before his run in the 2010 NBA playoffs is even ...
(Akiit.com) Throughout history various status quos have marketed limiting visions of human potential for one express purpose: Control. America, for all her laudable lip service about freedom, is no different. This “ free ” people routinely swallow limitations imposed from on high and amazingly, ask for more! Dissidents Left and ...
(Akiit.com) For some reason my PC mouse just doesn’t want to work… Will have to get a new one as it’s hard strolling up and down on a website… Anyway I do need to find those baby shower invitations or my big sister will kill me… Yes I’m going to ...
(Akiit.com) From Babe Ruth to Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa has always somewhat transparently aspired to be someone he is not. Last November, the six-time Silver Slugger and one-time Major League Baseball MVP raised as many eyebrows as his long rumored, alleged steroid use ever has when he attended the Latin ...
(Akiit.com) The cameras honed in on the Reverend Al Sharpton as he led thousands to the Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix in an old fashioned, energetic, shouting, chanting, sign and banner carrying civil rights style march. The marchers demanded repeal of Arizona’s hotly contested, controversial immigration law. Meanwhile, on ...