(Akiit.com) What Do You Call A Black Man At Harvard? Years ago, the answer to this question would be the n-word. Today it’s Esquire, Doctor, Congressman, Professor or President. Unfortunately, the police in Cambridge did not receive that memo before they arrested Harvard Professor, Skip Gates, as he was treated ...
(Akiit.com) When a wide receiver in football is called to go over the middle to catch a pass and the pass is one that would force the player to extend their arms to complete the reception three things happen. The thought that the player clearly has is that they will ...
(Akiit.com) I am not Al Sharpton. In fact, I never could be and I don’t want to try. I am also not Henry Louis Gates, a man with an undeniable contribution to the legacy of Black Scholarship in America. I am simply Boyce Watkins, the son of a 17-year old ...
(Akiit.com) Mainstream media coverage of the NAACP Centennial Convention held in New York last week generally proclaimed “Mission Accomplished” for the NAACP. Since Barack Obama took over the nation, in many people’s minds (both black and white), racism is over. The recent arrest of Henry Louis Gates — Mr. Black ...
(Akiit.com) Two million more black voters cast a ballot in the 2008 election than in 2004; and, young black voters had the highest increase in turnout among all groups, a U.S. Census Bureau report released today revealed. “We knew black youth influenced the outcome of the election and will do ...
(Akiit.com) NEW YORK (AP) — Heralding the NAACP for a century of courage and progress, President Barack Obama will come before the oldest U.S. civil rights organization Thursday with a message of shared responsibility: Government can help communities, but people are in charge of helping themselves. Obama, the first black ...
(Akiit.com) This week the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (the NAACP) is holding it’s 100th Anniversary convention in celebratory “high cotton†(New York) as the nation’s oldest civil rights organization of its kind. Longevity has its place. A century of struggle to meet two centuries of strife ...
(Akiit.com) Websites, blogs and chatrooms pulsed with garish cracks about it. Legions of commentators and news reporters snuck it in every chance they got. More than a few of Michael Jackson’s fervent admirers and supporters made a dismissive reference to it. Even President Barack Obama in a cautious acknowledgement of ...
(Akiit.com) We need to realize that we ourselves can choose to a considerable degree how healthy we want to be and how long we want to live in good health or, alternatively, which diseases we are willing to accept for the comfort of satisfying our present taste preferences, and maintaining ...
(Akiit.com) CAPE COAST, Ghana — From the rampart of a whitewashed fort once used to ship countless slaves from Africa to the Americas, Cheryl Hardin gazed through watery eyes at the route forcibly taken across the sea by her ancestors centuries before. “It never gets any easier,” the 48-year-old pediatrician ...
(Akiit.com) With the recent death of pop legend and musical icon Michael Jackson, people from around the world have taken pause to reflect upon his life, his music and his humanitarian message. The final period now placed at the end of his one of a kind life and career, Mr. ...
(Akiit.com) I write this article at the risk of offending my daughters, who are all in the “We think Lil Wayne and Chris Brown were sent by God” age group. It doesn’t matter if you’ve admitted to beating your girlfriend, or if you use every word other than “woman” to ...