(Akiit.com) Think you’re free? Take a close look at the choices you don’t have. “I freed a thousand slaves,†Harriet Tubman famously said. “I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.†With a black man occupying the White House, and the nation grappling with ...
(Akiit.com) I heard someone ask the question, “Are you spending more time balancing your checkbook, than you are balancing your life?†During these tough economic times we now live, people are running scared. They are pre-occupied with job security, having enough money to pay the mortgage, medical and credit card ...
(Akiit.com) With national unemployment hovering around 10 percent and black male unemployment at a staggering 17.6 percent, it’s just not true that undocumented workers are doing the jobs that we won’t do. In October 2008, amidst claims that one of its subsidiaries was knowingly hiring illegal immigrants, North Carolina poultry ...
(Akiit.com) Have you ever wondered why you do some of the things that you do? Asking ourselves ‘why?’ helps us to dig deeper into our motives — why we do what we do. Often times we do things for the wrong reasons and when our motives are wrong or unclear, ...
(Akiit.com) If Dr. Conrad Murray is guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, well then so am I and about half of America. For the record, I’m not currently on any prescribed medications. Nor am I one of the eccentric Jackson fans still living in Neverland and ...
(Akiit.com) Mary McLeod Bethune lived a heroic tale of overcoming the odds, and eventually opening her own institution for learning. Mary was born on July 10, 1875, and was raised in Mayesville, South Carolina. Her parents were Samuel and Patsy Bethune, and they both were former slaves who were freed ...
(Akiit.com) The frustrated fringe elements of the Republican and independent voter electorate gathered in Nashville, Tennessee this past weekend to vent about the first year of the Obama administration. They named the convention the “Tea Party,†a spin on the Boston Tea Party of 1767, where the British American colonists ...
(Akiit.com) Rosa Louise McCauley Parks is commonly considered as the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.†Her one simple act of courage still motivates and inspires people today. Her courageous act may have resulted in her being arrested, but it also changed the course of America because in those ...
(Akiit.com) For Black History Month this year, African descendants all over the world have something to celebrate—the actual making of history. An historic event many of us thought we’d never see has actually come to be. Barack Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth President of the United States. The ...
(Akiit.com) Are black children an endangered species? The answer is yes, according to billboards posted throughout Atlanta by anti-abortion groups. Although their answer is correct, their reasoning behind that answer is completely wrong. The anti-abortion organizations Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation have placed 65 billboards throughout the ...
(Akiit.com) Daniel Hale Williams is an African-American cardiologist, who in 1893, made a “ground-breaking?†achievement. On July 9, 1893, before such surgeries were even established, Williams performed the first successful open-heart surgery. Many people were astounded by his achievement, and some people were even inspired by it. Williams was a ...
(Akiit.com) In 2008 and 2009, 50 separate federal programs offered $23 trillion in loans, grants, or asset guarantees to the financial sector. Huh! This item was buried in paragraph 11 of 12 paragraphs in a joint statement that California Senator Barbara Boxer and Virginia Senator Jim Webb issued demanding taxes ...