(Akiit.com) Joseph Blue has lived in San Francisco for 20 years and toughed out the drastic decline in its black population, a phenomenon that persists despite being recognized for decades as a problem. Neighborhoods that once thrived with African American culture and black-owned businesses have all but disappeared. “San Francisco ...
(Akiit.com) SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Black leaders say they are on the move. They have seen enough. They’ve seen enough dying. They’ve seen enough suffering. They’ve seen enough labeling that comes with the stigma associated with the HIV/AIDS virus. During a recent three-day National Black Leader’s AIDS Mobilization Strategic Planning Summit, ...
(Akiit.com) The reaction was swift and justifiably angry to shock jock Don Imus’s latest racist crack that the Rutgers women’s basketball players were nappy headed ‘hos’ (An even more curious characterization given Imus’s trademark floppy mop). Imus didn’t step over the line of racial incorrectness he obliterated it. He straddled ...
Charleston, WV (Akiit.com) – Comedy Magician Dewayne Hill will set a world record on April 14, 2007 to benefit the March of Dimes Foundation at the Charleston Town Center Mall. Dewayne will perform over 100 card tricks with 60 minutes setting a world record. Various businesses and friends will donate ...
(Akiit.com) The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) are outraged at a number of crude comments made by WFAN radio personality Don Imus, regarding Rutgers University’s women’s basketball team. During a radio interview on his simulcasted radio show on MSNBC, Imus referred to athletes of the basketball team as “nappy-headed ...
Chicago, IL (Akiit.com) – Urban Influence Magazine, an official publication of the National Urban League, targets progressive African American professionals with a message of building wealth through social change. As the first publication of the Urban League distributed on newsstands nationwide, this occasion marks an historical achievement for the 97-year-old ...
     (Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson will participate in the “All-American Presidential Forums on PBS,†moderated by Tavis Smiley, on June 28, from 9 to 10:30 p.m. ET at Howard University in Washington, D.C.     ...
(Akiit.com) RUSTON, La. (AP) — Former Grambling coach Eddie Robinson, who created a football powerhouse at the small, black college in northern Louisiana that turned out hundreds of NFL players, has died. He was 88. The soft-spoken coach spent nearly 60 years at Grambling State University, where he set a ...
       (Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama beamed as he sat beside Jesse Jackson as Jesse announced that he was formally endorsing Obama’s candidacy. The idea was that Jackson’s endorsement would give Obama a rocket boost with black voters. It won’t.     And there are two glaring reasons why. ...
(Akiit.com) CHICAGO (AP) Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Thursday he’s backing Democrat Barack Obama in his presidential bid, giving his support to a new generation of black politicians. “He has my vote,” the Rev. Jackson told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Jackson sought the Democratic presidential nomination ...
     (Akiit.com) Al Sharpton, the Hip Hop Summit Action Network’s Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, and other community and religious leaders are planning a march to protest the alleged actions of G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo.      Billed as a “call to action and public grievance,†the rally is planned ...
(Akiit.com) Los Angeles, CA – Dr. Geraldine Washington’s service has been longstanding, substantial and consistent in striving to make a difference in the fight for social, community and civil empowerment in Los Angeles.     As the nation recognizes the significant contributions of women during the month of March, Washington, President ...