(Akiit.com) Each year during the month of February, we celebrate Black History Month to recognize the many extraordinary accomplishments and sacrifices that African-Americans have made for our nation. I proudly joined Congresswoman Joyce Beatty as an original cosponsor to a resolution which supports the principles of Black History Month and ...
(Akiit.com) I struggle with the word “wellness.” As a term it doesn’t land on me with the same gravity as other words that capture the historical moment we are in. As a mantra, Assata Shakur’s invocation of the words “duty,” “freedom,” “win,” and “love” build connection, are invigorating, and do ...
(Akiit.com) I love Baltimore. This city has made me the man that I am. Like an old friend, I’ve seen it at its best and its most challenged. From Ms. Rainey’s second grade class at Rosemont Elementary School to the mixes of K Swift & Miss Tony on 92Q, to ...
(Akiit.com) Then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 hammered her for it. 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders repeatedly hammers her for it. Even some have held up Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump opposition to the Iraq war to hammer her for it. The “it” is then New York ...
(Akiit.com) The conventional political wisdoms, that’s right wisdoms, not wisdom, about Hillary Clinton before Iowa went like this. One, she bombed badly in Iowa in 2008, losing to both Obama and John Edwards, therefore if she doesn’t do well in Iowa it will be 2008 all over again, and the ...
(Akiit.com) Marketing an online business can be a real challenge sometimes. It’s hard to know where to start and how to improve. But don’t give up just yet, there are lots of ideas that you probably haven’t tried yet. Here are some of the best of them. Use Images An ...
(Akiit.com) If you deem yourself to be a spiritual person, it can be more than a belief. It can be a way of life. Do you truly believe in the existence of God and the divinity of creation? Perhaps you should consider planning your life around this belief? You could ...
(Akiit.com) The concept of Jesus healing the sick has always had its critics, even among well meaning religious people. It was that way in Jesus’ day, and it is that way now. Fortunately the answer does not lie in man’s opinion, but on God’s Word. That is the reason we ...
(Akiit.com) The Greatness of God is beyond the intellectual capacity of man to comprehend, and any attempt to define His greatness is an exercise in futility. He has been described as omnipotent, omnipresent, the greatest, most awesome, powerful, glorious, loving being known or unknown to man,” and perhaps every other ...
(Akiit.com) “… grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17). There is a rhythm to life: the rhythm of the falling rain that comes down from heaven and watereth the earth that it may bring forth seed for the sower and bread for the eater. There is the unforced ...
(Akiit.com) Jesus leads the Believer to a new Exodus – through death to a new life. Not only out of the world of Egypt through the Red Sea and the Wilderness, across the Jordan River into Canaan the Promised Land and so forth to Mount Zion and the New Jerusalem, ...
(Akiit.com) We’ve seen the success of Empire almost overnight. What else can you expect when you put Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard together? Magic! There is so much more to Taraji P. Henson than meets the eye, and I’m sure we’ve seen her in a catalog of films doing ...