DETROIT (Akiit.com) — The NAACP held a symbolic funeral in Detroit 63 years ago for Jim Crow. The civil rights organization will do the same this summer for the “N” word, the Rev. Wendell Anthony said Sunday. Anthony, president of the civil rights organization’s Detroit branch, said members and supporters ...
Cure every cell – a sickle cell support group (Akiit.com) There’s quite a lot of stigma toward the whole subject of sickle cell anemia. People can feel guilty because they carry a gene and they choose not to talk about it. So they need to talk about it to start ...
(Akiit.com) Combating negative images is just a part of the undeclared war within the black community, fought on multiple fronts. We are up against: “House Negro” fence-sitters. In the antebellum period in the South, such people always saw things through the eyes of their master or boss. No matter how ...
Board’s resolution includes those who built school’s first buildings (Akiit.com) The University of Virginia’s governing board has adopted a resolution expressing regret for the school’s use of slaves, including those “anonymous laborers” who constructed its first buildings. The resolution, unanimously passed by U.Va.’s board of visitors on April 13 — ...
Housing advocates report finds discrimination in properties for rental (Akiit.com) NEW ORLEANS – Blacks already feeling the pinch from a housing shortage in the New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina are facing racial discrimination in their search for rental property, a survey by housing advocates found. The survey sent black ...
(Akiit.com) The NAACP recognizes that when it comes to forming ideas and establishing norms, nothing is more influential than the images and concepts delivered into our lives on a daily basis by radio, television, film and the Internet. Those that are given access to the public through mainstream media must ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – National Urban League President Marc Morial, in NUL’s annual State of Black America address, this week, describes the underachievement of Black males as being among America’s greatest crisis. “This state of underachievement, with its devastating and far-reaching ramifications, is the most serious economic and civil rights challenge ...
(Akiit.com) Demeaning images of black women didn’t begin with those conjured by the words of disgraced shock jock Don Imus. There’s the rap music industry — the new focus of public ire — and a decades-long history of black men dressing in drag to portray loud, offensive and usually dark-skinned ...
(Akiit.com) Pittsburgh’s black newspaper, which reaches households in neighborhoods where gun violence happens often, is keeping a running tally of people killed in the city and county — to send a harsh message. The message is as layered as the problem is complex, says New Pittsburgh Courier publisher Rod Doss. ...
Democratic House member represented Southern California district (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON – Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, a seven-term congresswoman from southern California, died early Sunday of cancer. She was 68. Millender-McDonald died at her home in Carson, said her chief of staff, Bandele McQueen. The congresswoman had asked for a four- to six-week ...
Her beating in 1963 led to federal charges against Mississippi lawmen (Akiit.com) JACKSON, Miss. – Civil rights activist June E. Johnson, who as a teenager was beaten by white officials in a 1963 confrontation that led to federal charges, has died. She was 59. Johnson died Friday of kidney failure ...
Upland, CA (Akiit.com) – On a cold Monday morning in a buzzing academic community at Virginia Tech, the lives of thousands were changed drastically within a two and one-half hour period. A troubled 23 year old man acted out everyone’s worse nightmare, when he allegedly took the lives of 32 ...