Postcard writer bristles over columnist’s ‘terrible mess‘ (Akiit.com) No doubt about it, I’m nappy-headed. I wear my hair without straightening its curl pattern — which in my case is tight — when I don’t do anything to it my hair looks like a tumbleweed. But don’t think I let my ...
(Akiit.com) Tallahassee, Florida – I am concerned with the growing racial undertones that largely go unspoken but are manifested in the public square. Our predominantly and historically black university constantly has to live under the threats and political strangulation of budget cuts, which will lead to nonexistence. Yet all historically ...
(Akiit.com) We have a phenomenon that occurs in the black community-somewhere in the fabric of what makes some of us who we are and what we are, there is a misguided notion as to what is good and what is bad. It can be seen in our use of language. ...
Columbus, OH (Akiit.com) – According to a new study released by Nationwide Financial (NYSE: NFS), 73 percent of African-American males say they were driven into retirement by factors beyond their control, compared to 33 percent of the general population. This number represents retirees who say they had to retire when ...
ATLANTA (Akiit.com) — Morehouse College has selected Robert Franklin as the school’s tenth president. Franklin, a 1975 graduate of Morehouse, was selected on Saturday by the board of trustees. He also has a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Franklin ...
Movement to Ban Slur Crosses Communities (Akiit.com) The very mention of the word sends Jennifer Lowery-Bell’s mind spinning back to a painful time. “That word reminds me of lynchings and black men disappearing in the night and all of the dehumanizing things that used to happen to African Americans,” said ...
Edward Boyd helped integrate sales force of Pepsi-Cola, changed blacks’ image in advertisements. NEW YORK (Akiit.com) — Edward F. Boyd, a seminal figure in African-American business history, died Monday at the age of 92, Pepsi announced Wednesday. In 1947 Pepsi-Cola hired Boyd to lead an all-black sales force to sell ...
(Akiit.com) After working on the book for more than a decade, Haley was stuck — and desperate I just love to get out in the ocean. You are really out there, thinking in ways you haven’t thought before. The best writing I ever possibly could do was after The Digest ...
(Akiit.com) Prominent African-American Scholar and Author Ralph Ellison once depicted the black man as socially invisible in his watershed novel Invisible Man. His hard-hitting portrayal of life in 1940s black America suggested that it’ll take more than a major Civil Rights movement to bring the nation out of its racist ...
Whatever She Wants, starring Vivica A. Fox, is the latest work in a growing genre (Akiit.com) Not long ago, Vivica A. Fox and Morris Chestnut were among the top stars of a modestly successful movie subgenre — the all-black romantic comedy — that seems to have lost some of its ...
(Akiit.com) HARTFORD, Conn. — The idea of strolling the beach in a bikini isn’t what motivates Sandra Mosby to bake her chicken rather than frying it, or to lightly season her collard greens rather than dropping in a fatty ham hock. For Mosby and a growing number of black women, ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) — Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert says he will retire at the end of June 2008. In a letter to the university community dated Friday, Swygert, 64, outlined goals for his final year in office and pointed to his accomplishments since taking the helm of the historically ...