(Akiit.com) Before African Americans created the blues and gospel music, work songs and spirituals were their mainstays. The phenomenal history of black survival from the Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic African Slave Trade, through chattel slavery, and on to present-day discrimination, is marked by an ability to release repressed emotion. ...
(Akiit.com) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google Inc. is apologizing for a racially offensive image of the first lady that appears at the top of the list when users search for pictures of Michelle Obama on its site. Google placed a text ad above the image titled “Offensive Search Results” that ...
(Akiit.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will have scant time to rest up from his eight-day Asia trip. On Saturday, two days after his return to Washington, the Senate plans a make-or-break vote on his hard-fought plan to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Obama also confronts a difficult ...
(Akiit.com) In the now seemingly-distant halcyon days of the 2008 presidential campaign, the election of the first African-American president carried with it the promise of exorcizing the phantoms that have haunted America’s race relations. Many political observers surmised that with Barack Obama’s election, self-anointed and often polarizing black leader Reverend ...
(Akiit.com) In 2007, Sheila Dixon made history when she became Baltimore’s first female mayor. Two years later, Dixon is making history again as she stands trial over allegations that she took gift cards intended for the needy. Her case is just one of several scandals which involve black politicians. Last ...
(Akiit.com) Speaking from the Rose Garden this morning President Obama announced that he would accept the Nobel Peace Prize. The president said that he does not view it as a recognition of his own accomplishments, but as a call to action for the international community to confront global issues. The ...
(Akiit.com) President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a stunning decision designed to build momentum behind his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism. Obama said he was surprised and deeply humbled by ...
(Akiit.com) In his first year in office former president Bill Clinton, who had run as a centrist, was drawn into the new left vortex of socialized healthcare, which led to a resounding defeat for Clinton and the Democrats in the 1994 mid-term elections. Current President Barack Obama too is attempting ...
(Akiit.com) In recent weeks, the Obama administration has come under considerable fire, as it has attempted to advance its agenda regarding national health care reform. Much of the opposition directed towards the President’s plan has expressed itself in a manner which many believe to pertain less to the proposal and ...
(Akiit.com) Speaking to NBC News Anchor Brian Williams former president Jimmy Carter (taking a breather between having tea with dictators and lunatics) proffered that not only was South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s inappropriate outburst during President Obama’s speech before a joint session of congress fueled by racism, but the wider ...
(Akiit.com) The figure on real poverty in America is far worse than the Census Bureau recently reported. It found that nearly 40 million Americans are living in official poverty (less than $22,000 for a family of four). This is an 11 year high. The Bureau figure does not take into ...
(Akiit.com) In early August, this writer blasted the bizarre Obama Joker Poster that literally depicted President Obama as scary, demonic and socialist. The controversy got more than a quarter million Google references. Nearly all respondents defended the poster. This wasn’t all. There were hundreds of angry emails lambasting Obama and ...