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 ...
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 ...