(Akiit.com) Our national conversation is a messy collision of race and gender, with ageism and the questionable state of our media tossed in as collateral damage. The 2008 presidential race is making us think hard on everything we thought we knew or felt about our country — and who we ...
(Akiit.com) A discussion I recently had with a good friend who heads a prominent Latino social service agency in Los Angeles turned to the White House prospects of Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama. He lowered his voice and shamefacedly said that many Latinos that he talked with scoffed at or ...
(Akiit.com) What does a vote for Barack Obama really mean? It’s strange, everyone I talk to seems to have different opinions about it, whether they’re young or old, male or female, everyone has something to say. I’m African American, and I have four children, two of my children are in ...
(Akiit.com) A President Barack Obama will be the most scrutinized president since Abraham Lincoln. Ironically, the reason for this has less to do with race, though that will loom large in the lens of many, as it has to do with him. He’s lifted public passions and expectations to the ...
(Akiit.com) I became compelled to write this article due to several people, Black women in particular, asking me if I thought the “White Power Fanatics” would assassinate Barack Obama if he became President of the United States. More importantly, they used that speculation as a reason for NOT supporting him. ...
(Akiit.com) Are you black enough? Despite the rising American death toll in a divisive war, record gasoline prices and homes lost to foreclosure in historic numbers, this was the one question that I knew Sen. Barack Obama would be asked by Internet voters at the Democratic CNN-YouTube debate. It is ...
(Akiit.com) As someone who could become the first African-American president, Barack Obama can’t help but make history — even the unwelcome kind. The Illinois senator now is under the protection of the Secret Service, an unusual step this early in a campaign. Pundits insist this development is both depressing and ...
(Akiit.com) Race is and will continue to be an issue that we all must grapple with in America. Regardless of your economic or social status in our great country, the question of race permeates everything we do. The euphoria around the meteoric rise of Senator Barack Obama’s Presidential campaign has ...
(Akiit.com) COLUMBIA, S.C. — Because Democratic White House front-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton decided to go to Selma and Orangeburg, they have reminded the nation that for many people, the bloody struggle for civil rights happened in their lifetimes. As they travel around the country in their own ...
Democratic House member represented Southern California district (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON – Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, a seven-term congresswoman from southern California, died early Sunday of cancer. She was 68. Millender-McDonald died at her home in Carson, said her chief of staff, Bandele McQueen. The congresswoman had asked for a four- to six-week ...
Candidate faces first test on handling issues of race (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON — With the Rev. Al Sharpton leading calls Monday for radio host Don Imus to be fired over racially insensitive remarks, Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign avoided the controversy throughout the day. Not until Monday evening, five days after ...
     (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.     ...