(Akiit.com) Jacklyn Milton narrates her miracles of love and all she has learned through her life as a wife, mother, grandmother, and caterer. In her new book, she shares many whispers of love, cherished memories, rich family heritage, and recipes for meals that earned her raving accolades. Maya Beecham, a poet, ...
(Akiit.com) Astoria, OR – The port of Astoria on the Columbia River is the home of Black History in the making as Niccolea Miouo Nance prepares to set sail with The Emuna Endeavor. The Oregon-born, Arizona-raised poet and artist has put her creative work on hold to learn seamanship and ...
(Akiit.com) Colorlines, the award-winning daily news site published by racial justice organization Race Forward, today announced the redesign of its website, Colorlines.com. Changes include cleaner design, simpler navigation, enhanced search functionality, and more engaging display of multimedia content. Colorlines was an early voice in race news reporting, starting as a ...
(Akiit.com) Getting to the top takes hard work and dedication. Trying to pass that commitment down to inner-city kids can be a challenge at times, but the What It Takes Foundation believes it has a social media forum that may get through to them. Through a grant from the John ...
(Akiit.com) In addition to his ongoing career in TV news, Peter Thorne is taking on a new title: African-American Social Entrepreneur. The longtime NYC TV journalist announces the launch of Momma B Bakery (MBBE LLC), a black-family owned and operated gourmet bakery company that was conceived with a simple goal ...
(Akiit.com) Disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claims in an upcoming book that an unspoken alliance of political adversaries, Detroit business leaders and an aggressive media capitalized on a sex and perjury scandal to send him from leading one of America’s largest cities to a prison cell. The former politician bills ...
(Akiit.com) Los Angeles, Calif. – Inspired by the true story of a falsely accused black college graduate forced to serve probation in an all-white seminary in the 1960s, The Least Among You debuts on DVD, Digital Download and On Demand August 24, 2010 from Lionsgate. The emotionally charged film stars ...
(Akiit.com) New book uses Bible to trace origins of humankind and contributions of blacks in America. The Legacy: Looking Back While Moving Forward by Laura Lee King examines the lineage of black Americans PORTLAND, Ore. (MMD Newswire) May 18, 2010 — In The Legacy: Looking Back While Moving Forward, Laura ...
(Akiit.com) Coming from a family with a tradition in medicine it was only natural for Chantale Trouillot to want to heal sick people. Her father was a Doctor when Chantale was growing up in Port Au Prince, Haiti. Chantale wanted to be the hands-on, day and night, care and comfort ...
(Akiit.com) Charles Town, WV…..Charles Town West Virginia national award winning author Bob O’Connor, a Civil War writer who has given us three historicalnovels about the conflict, has changed gears and published a non-fictioncivil war book called “The U.S. Colored Troops at Andersonville Prison.†The book is a follow up of ...
(Akiit.com) Future Leader of the World was founded in 2007 by husband and wife team Gary and Sherrie Mitchell. “My husband actually thought of the idea and I helped to put it in motionâ€, says Sherrie. Not only are we projecting a positive message to the world, we can honestly ...
(Akiit.com) Patricia Anne Phillips is a local author of seven romance novels. After her daughter’s health started to decline, Patricia was asked to move into her daughter and family home. Her daughter had a car accident, and two months later was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). After the car accident ...