(Akiit.com) Trump made clear from the start of his reelection campaign that his ticket back to the White House would be scamming law and order. The galling thing about this is that Biden and the Democrats let Trump get away with it. Not once in the deluge of Biden hit ...
(Akiit.com) Thursday morning on Fox Business Network, President Donald Trump announced that since the Commission on Presidential Debates announced the Oct. 15 presidential debate would be conducted virtually to guard against the spread of coronavirus, he would skip it. Of course, shortly after I wrote the above paragraph, the story ...
(Akiit.com) Guess what. The stock market seems to like Joe Biden. More precisely, investors seem to like that his lead in the polls is solid enough to lessen the prospect of President Donald Trump setting off an explosion of doubt, anxiety and possible violence if Biden wins narrowly. “A Clear-Cut ...
(Akiit.com) Black people occupy a place between hope and despair. We hope our nation will keep its promises – that all people are created equal, that justice is both blind and fair, that truth matters, that there is integrity. We struggle against the imperfections, the racism that is baked in ...
(Akiit.com) Forty. Something about that age puts people on a precipice. Too old to be young. Too young to be old. And if your career hasn’t taken off by that age…well. Will it ever? This is the space where The Forty-Year-Old Version resides. A crossroads. Radha Blank, a Harlem-based writer, is known for her ...
(Akiit.com) “I vote for the man (or woman), not the party” is what millions of Americans say and what, in fact, many do. It is intended as a noble sentiment: “I am not one of those Americans who votes blindly by party; I measure each candidate and then decide which ...
(Akiit.com) Donald Trump is likely to survive his infection with the coronavirus. But it’s hard to imagine how his reelection campaign can. The president has trailed Joe Biden in national polls for a year, and his performance in the first debate did nothing to close the gap. The news that ...
(Akiit.com) I heard a noise sounding like it was coming from the kids’ end of the upstairs hall. After getting up to inspect, and going for a glass of water, I fell down the rabbit hole, turned on the phone and there it was. My texts were blown to bits, ...
(Akiit.com) “The poor will always be with us,” say the cynics. No doubt, some will always be wealthier than others. We wouldn’t want to live in a society that forced all to be equal. But poverty isn’t inevitable. The 30 million people in America who lived in poverty even before ...
(Akiit.com) TIFF has always been a haven for black films and artists. And now, in this year of BLM, it has stepped up its game showing a particular reverence for African diaspora films. In 2020, film festivals are finding creative ways to present movies to a vast audience as safely as ...
(Akiit.com) “Chaos.” “Painful.” “Dispiriting.” “The worst presidential debate in American history.” “The lowest point in American political culture in my lifetime.” You get the idea. These are responses, from Donald Trump supporters and Donald Trump opponents, to the first 2020 presidential debate Tuesday night. I detect a note of shell ...
(Akiit.com) Grief is something that practically everyone experiences at some point in their lives. For many, it happens because of the passing of a loved one. Grief is the feeling you get when your mind is trying to process that you can’t get back something you’ve lost. However, by this ...