(Akiit.com) According to some of the media I have read lately, I do not exist. Yet I live, breathe, and pen these words in support of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. I am an African-American law professor at Harvard who was recruited by Elena Kagan during her deanship. ...
(Akiit.com) The cameras honed in on the Reverend Al Sharpton as he led thousands to the Arizona state capitol building in Phoenix in an old fashioned, energetic, shouting, chanting, sign and banner carrying civil rights style march. The marchers demanded repeal of Arizona’s hotly contested, controversial immigration law. Meanwhile, on ...
(Akiit.com) This coming Thursday, April 22nd will be the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. This is a day that people are encouraged to think about the environment, and the effects that man’s day to day activities have upon the earth. It started as a movement based in college teach-ins on ...
(Akiit.com) Dorothy Height, a legend in civil rights leadership, died of natural causes this morning at Howard University Hospital, a spokesperson for the hospital confirmed. She was 98 years old. “I am deeply saddened by the passing today of my dear friend and mentor,” former U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis ...
(Akiit.com) In recent weeks, considerable turmoil has emerged among some elite members of the Civil Rights community. Publicly aired expressions germinating from PBS’s Tavis Smiley and the National Action Network’s President Rev. Al Sharpton, in which both parties have accused the other of working against the interests of the African-American ...
(Akiit.com) It took me a minute to figure out why Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell looked so familiar. Then it hit me and I had to laugh out loud. Of course! The Southern governor who had just insulted African-Americans by proclaiming April to be “Confederate History Month,†is the same guy ...
(Akiit.com) Three Democratic congressmen — all black — say they heard racial slurs as they walked through thousands of angry protesters outside the U.S. Capitol. A white lawmaker says he heard the epithets too. Conservative activists say the lawmakers are lying. What does the video show? Not much. Indeed, new ...
(Akiit.com) His presidency was historic. The challenges he has faced during his first year have been historic as well. But for this president the bigger the challenge, the bigger the victory. And President Obama scored the biggest victory last week when he signed into law healthcare reform that is as ...
(Akiit.com) Time For The Board of Regents To Step In At UCSD… For the past five weeks, one of the ugliest episodes of racism in recent years (before the Tea Partiers started spittin’ on people and calling congress people “Nig**rs†and “Fag**ts†at the congressional health care vote last weekend) ...
(Akiit.com) There was much laughter following the presidents signing of the health care bill. Democrats were positively giddy over having successfully secured America’s decline. There were fist bumps and back slapping; the champagne flowed. Democrats were not alone in their celebration. Republicans too shook hands with constituents and lapped up ...
(Akiit.com) Ohio Democrat Tim Ryan could have saved his breath when he furiously demanded that GOP leaders denounce the blatant racists among them. The loud chorus from other Democrats, civil rights leaders, and even an online petition from an advocacy group begging the GOP to speak out against its naked ...
(Akiit.com) A congressional report reveals the dire details, but does one sector have a strategy that will help turn the tide? As the Great Recession’s scythe slices through industries, states, cities and neighborhoods, African Americans have received the most devastating wound. Blacks, and particularly African-American males, have suffered disproportionate rates ...