(Akiit.com) Among people of color, the tragic problem of youth violence is a condition requiring serious introspection. In cities like Chicago, major news outlets report murder rates among teens as being at least one per week and in Los Angeles, violence between Latino and Black youth threatens the likelihood of ...
(Akiit.com) “Make me do it.” –Barack Hussein Obama The relevance of the above challenge issued by then Senator Barack Obama will soon become obvious. For now, let me first congratulate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the soon-to-be vacant seat of retiring high court Associate Justice David Souter. ...
(Akiit.com) Radio One owner Cathy Hughes is trying hard to keep her company above water in the midst of this recession, having already cut folks’ pay by as much as 10 percent and reduced office hours at the company’s Maryland headquarters, reports Redding News. “We are closing every other Friday,” ...
(Akiit.com) COLUMBIA, S.C. — The official manual of South Carolina’s Legislature continues to label some of the state’s former politicians as “Negro” or “scalawag” — apparent remnants of disgruntlement over Reconstruction that nobody has bothered to change. A spokesman for the state’s lieutenant governor, who is eyeing a run for ...
(Akiit.com) Moderate Republicans to conservative Republicans: Turn down the volume — especially on Rush Limbaugh — and open your minds. The party’s future might be at stake. Such warnings about the GOP’s right wing, along with finger wagging about a “shrill” and “judgmental” tone, marked the moderate response in the ...
(Akiit.com) Bill Clinton tried to create a Third Way. President Obama is doing it. This is exciting, but also disconcerting. Over the last week, the true nature of Obama’s political project has come into much clearer view. He is out to build a new and enduring political establishment, located slightly ...
(Akiit.com) You can’t convince me USA Today’s Drew Sharp does not understand, by suggesting Mike Vick be not allowed to play in the NFL this upcoming 2009 season. Sharp’s doing all the heavy lifting for a segment of American society which hates what Vick represents, i.e., the Black athlete, the ...
(Akiit.com) A few years back media outlets took shocking note of a deadly and disturbing phenomenon. A lot of rap artists were suddenly turning up dead. Dead actually is not the right way to describe their deaths. They were murdered, and their murderers in almost all cases were other rappers, ...
(Akiit.com) Untreated high blood pressure increases the risk of heart disease, stroke, problems with blood vessels and blood flow, kidney and eye problems, and early death. It is estimated that 1 of 3 American adults has high blood pressure or hypertension. High blood pressure is often called the ‘ silent ...
(Akiit.com) I, as a pastor. have conducted the funerals of many black youth in my wonderful Queen City of the South, New Orleans. The Majority of Americans are heartbroken and in wonder concerning the senseless murder rate of our youth. I have been given the reason why a larger number ...
(Akiit.com) It has long been known that infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus or (HIV), cause Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which leads to breakdown of the bodies defense system, and a series of opportunistic infections caused mostly by viral, fungal, and amoebic type infections. In recent years, a lot of the ...
(Akiit.com) The Washington Times quickly yanked the picture of Malia and Sasha Obama juxtaposed with the screaming headline “36 Chicago area kids killed sets record.†Times editor John Solomon blamed it on a computer auto file error. No word from Editor Solomon who or what programmed the computer, and no ...