(Akiit.com) The applause was loud and sustained virtually every moment that Yolanda King was on stage performing her one-woman theatrical performance. The audience beamed with love, joy and most importantly appreciation for her. This writer did too as I sat spellbound in the first row of the Los Angeles church ...
Group Proposes Mentors, Single-Sex Classrooms (Akiit.com) Maryland – A new report by a statewide task force that paints a grim picture of how African American male students are faring in Maryland’s public schools and universities recommends strengthening mentor programs, encouraging more black men to be teachers and providing more academic ...
(Akiit.com) Wyclef Jean, Steve Harvey, Biz Markie, Doug E. Fresh and a host of other performers have joined forces to support the “50 Million Pound Challenge,” designed to address obesity in the black community and help millions of African Americans lose weight. Spearheaded by celebrity physician Dr. Ian Smith of ...
(Akiit.com) Savannah, GA Responsibility and achievement, not violence, are the mark of a true man. “A new life started when I started going to Savannah Technical College. Everything is so positive, fresh and great.” John Weldon, as told to his teacher Geveryl Robinson, on March 19. On May 1, 2007, ...
Stop the killing — before we lose yet another young life (Akiit.com) What are we to do now? That question nagged me every time I thought about the family of Blair Holt. Blair was the 16-year-old Julian High School junior who was killed Thursday when a 16-year-old gang member opened ...
(Akiit.com) As someone who could become the first African-American president, Barack Obama can’t help but make history — even the unwelcome kind. The Illinois senator now is under the protection of the Secret Service, an unusual step this early in a campaign. Pundits insist this development is both depressing and ...
In a speech at the National Urban League’s 2006 annual conference, Time-Warner Chairman Dick Parsons said the reason why he pursued higher education was that it was expected of him – by his friends, parents and the community as a whole. (Akiit.com) There was no question in the matter. He ...
Poor BET. (Akiit.com) All chesty and smirking, the cable network announces more original programming than ever before and instead of applause gets nothing but attitude. Seems The Black Intelligentsia isn’t impressed. Still haven’t gotten over those degrading, tacky music videos, I bet. You know, the ones that have paid BET’s ...
(Akiit.com) Andrea Riggs was ready to take on the competition when she opened her personal training studio in Black Jack, Mo. The niche for Body Beautiful was to help black women get into shape, be healthy and look good. The competition she ran into, however, wasn’t Bally or Gold’s or ...
(Akiit.com) About a month back, the National Urban League presented a statement to the National Press Club devoted to the “black male crisis,” saying that this country risks losing its “greatest untapped resource.” In “State of Black America 2007,” the League said: “Empowering black men to reach their full potential ...
(Akiit.com) Race is and will continue to be an issue that we all must grapple with in America. Regardless of your economic or social status in our great country, the question of race permeates everything we do. The euphoria around the meteoric rise of Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign has ...
(Akiit.com) On November 12, 1946, a packed crowd gathered in Atlanta for the premier of one of that year’s much anticipated films. Disney Studio had pulled out all promo stops to make sure that the cash registers jingled for the opening of Song of the South. The film was its ...