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 ...
Columbus, OH (Akiit.com) – For many generations we have heard about the many benefits of breastfeeding our young versus formula feeding. Not only for the obvious strong bonding between mother and child but also for the various health benefits as well. However despite all the advocating of breastfeeding done over ...
Editor’s note: Jeff Johnson is a correspondent for BET and former host and producer of “The Jeff Johnson Chronicles.” He previously served as national youth director for the NAACP and vice president of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network. (Akiit.com) — Hip-hop’s alleged vulgarity, sexism and misogyny have been formally and ...
(Akiit.com) All four service branches of the military are reporting dramatically lower rates of enlistment by African-Americans. Traditionally, a quarter of all new recruits have been black. But since the start of the war in Iraq four years ago, the number of new black recruits has dropped by almost half. ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – The prospects are bleak. Genocide is no exaggeration. Incarceration, AIDS, unemployment and the school drop-out rate are all problems challenging Black people in America—Black males in particular—and according to this year’s annual report released Apr. 17 by the National Urban League (NUL) entitled “The State of Black ...