Atlanta, GA (Akiit.com) – Black grand mothers have stayed on their knees praying and many parents died early worrying about their children. Black fathers faced violence, just trying to protect their daughters from thugs and a Black on Black hateful lifestyle. Where is respect for what Jesus died for in ...
‘Normalized racism’ evident to fellow students, researcher says (Akiit.com) Teachers treat African-American males differently than their white and Latino counterparts based on negative stereotypes and perceptions, according to a recent dissertation presented in Chicago. “Sally can skip, but Jerome can’t stomp” is the title of Denise L. Collier’s dissertation, which ...
(Akiit.com) Armed with two handguns and several clips of ammunition, a gunman went on a rampage at Virginia Tech early Monday killing 32 people on the campus before fatally shooting himself. The campus newspaper confirmed what Akiit.com first reported this morning; one of the shooter’s first two victims, a resident ...
NEW YORK, April 17 /Akiit.com/ — BLACK ENTERPRISE (BE) today revealed its most recent list of top cities for African Americans as featured in its May 2007 issue. The top picks were culled from more than 2,000 interactive surveys completed on http://www.blackenterprise.com/ and by editorial staff evaluation. The editors weighed ...
(Akiit.com) A deal with the devil? Is that really what the Congressional Black Caucus has cut with Fox News Network? ColorofChange.org, a political black political advocacy group, has burned up Internet sites with petitions, launched a letter writing campaign, and orchestrated waves of writers and activists, including Jesse Jackson, to ...
(Akiit.com) Don Imus is gone! Like a gladiator kneeling in the coliseum before a foe that just defeated him, Imus experienced the terror of waiting for the thumbs up or thumbs down decision of the crowd. This time the decision for the seasoned media warrior was professional death. He was ...
(Akiit.com) An organization called Historically Black Colleges and Universities Connect is launching a multi-institution alumni magazine targeting the more than 400,000 graduates, faculty and current students of America’s historically black schools. The new title, HBCU Connect The Magazine, is the latest brand extension for the organization, which already hosts experiential ...
(Akiit.com) Rapper/actress Queen Latifah will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Simmons School of Management leadership conference. The 28th annual event, which takes place May 5 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MA, will include skill-building workshops and educational sessions. In addition to the keynote addresses from ...
(Akiit.com) There is no longer a need for dire predictions, hand-wringing, or apprehension about losing a generation of Black boys. It is too late. In education, employment, economics, incarceration, health, housing, and parenting, we have lost a generation of young Black men. The question that remains is will we lose ...
If the man who could be our first black president has a white mother, and yet Toni Morrison says we already elected one in Bill Clinton, then what’s black and white is pretty gray. (Akiit.com) Since before he started a historic run for the presidency, Barack Obama has told the ...
(Akiit.com) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that radio host Don Imus’ comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team were “disgusting” and she was pleased he was fired. Imus called the women players “nappy-headed hos” — racist, sexist remarks that resulted in a barrage of protests ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – While the number of African-Americans who frequent the Internet continues to grow, White Web users maintain a good lead amidst the so-called digital divide, according to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study. What was once the “digital divide†has evolved into the “digital dimmer ...