(Akiit.com) To fashionistas, she’s Michelle O, the new Jackie – and they hope she’ll send women to the malls in droves, looking to match her style. Post-feminists see Michelle Obama as one of their own, the having-it-all Harvard-educated lawyer who’s embracing her role as “mom in chief†to two young ...
(Akiit.com) The expectations of the New Year has us all expecting change on some level. Change in the nation’s political direction; change in the global situation; change in the economy; change in the job markets; change in the schools; change in our local communities; change in our personal lives. Funny ...
(Akiit.com) President-elect Barack Obama has said the African-American church transformed him from a skeptic to a believer. He has spoken appreciatively of its vibrant worship and written about how the black church experience has moved him to tears. And he has credited African-American congregations for their work in helping the ...
(Akiit.com) Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush has screamed long and loud that the Senate’s bash of disputed Illinois senate appointee Roland Burris is racism. Burris took the cue and chimed in that he also whiffed race in the Senate Democrats’ obsession with keeping him out of the Senate. Rush and Burris ...
(Akiit.com) Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. should bow out of contention for Obama’s Senate seat. True there is yet no evidence that he offered to grease Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich’s palm in return for the seat. But there’s a continuing probe into whether a Jackson family member or associates acted ...
(Akiit.com) President-elect Barack Obama asked the White House if his family could move to Washington earlier than normal, but aides say the White House couldn’t give them the official guest house as early as his family wanted. The Obamas had asked White House officials to move into Blair House about ...
(Akiit.com) WASHINGTON (AP) — The first child born at the White House was the grandson of President Thomas Jefferson. The second child born there was his property — the African-American baby of Jefferson’s two slaves. Slaves not only helped build the White House, but also for decades men and women ...
(Akiit.com) One of President Woodrow Wilson’s famous quotes reads as follows: “A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we ...
(Akiit.com) – With the election of former Democratic Sen. Barack Obama as president of the United States with overwhelming support from communities of color – 95 percent among Black voters and over 65 percent among Latinos – many Black Republicans, in contemplating their future, also are reflecting on their place ...
(Akiit.com) Before nominating Eric Holder to be his attorney general, President Elect Barack Obama quietly asked key Senate Republicans if there would be any potential confirmation problems with Holder’s nomination. Holder is his first cabinet pick and Obama wants to make sure that the pick will be hailed as a ...
(Akiit.com) – Baltimore, MD: Veteran civil rights activist Julian Bond will not seek another term as chairman of the NAACP’s national board, saying the time is right to “let a new generation of leaders” take over the century-old organization. Bond, 68, has served as chairman since 1998. He announced Tuesday ...
(Akiit.com) If, as the essayist wrote, ‘irony gives birth to a deeper and less friendly understanding’, then here is a real mother for ya. In the days following the election of Barack Obama as our nation’s 44th president, my email in box was filled with notes proclaiming “another bold step ...