(Akiit.com) It’s been three months since Stepha Henry vanished while visiting South Florida, and I’m still waiting for the vociferous community outcry, massive searches, daily police news conferences and the throng of media camped out her mother’s front door. But it’s not coming, I know, because Stepha doesn’t fit the ...
(Akiit.com) Helping African American males succeed in urban schools can seem like an intractable problem, but applying some basic principles that empower teachers and students is a key part of the answer, finds Vanderbilt University education researcher H. Richard Milner. In a new article in the journal Theory Into Practice, ...
(Akiit.com) Back to School: The First ‘R’ / Race Seven members of the monthly reading group Sisters That Are Readers (STARS) gather at the Homewood Library. Clockwise from bottom left, are Nichole Jordan, M. Gayle Moss, Mercedes Taylor, Velma Harris, Denice Coker, Vivian Shelton and Donna Stilo. When it comes ...
(Akiit.com) Over 50 years ago, Jackie Robinson’s recruitment into major league baseball marked the beginning of what might be called a Golden Era for African Americans in professional sports. Over the last decade, however, that era appears to be coming to an end. Later, I’ll touch on why this seems ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – More than 100 years since W.E.B. DuBois declared that the “color line†would be the key problem of the 20th Century, civil rights activists and race experts now say the problem of racial tensions are still so pervasive in the 21st Century that some have labeled it ...
(Akiit.com) Black suicide can be lessened through the influence of religious communities, according to new UA research. The study done by UA sociology professor Kevin Fitzpatrick intended “to focus the question on whether or not religion was important, particularly in a community where religion has been, and often still is, ...
(Akiit.com) PBS’s Washington Week host and managing editor Gwen Hill posed that question at an August 10 panel discussion titled “What Does It Mean to be a Black Man?†Perhaps no segment of the American population has been more analyzed than Black males. They have been the subject of dozens ...
(Akiit.com) I think that black folk who want to assimilate need to be honest about this. All too often, black folk are assimilating and promoting assimilation but are refusing to be open about what they really stand for. Why is it so difficult for black people who assimilate to acknowledge ...
(Akiit.com) Noted Author will be hosting an Artistic Extravaganza promoting local artists, musicians, and performers as part of a Corporate Connection Event (April 26, 2007) – On April 29, 2007, the on-line Talk shows “IN THE KNOW with Tony Reeves, Esq.†(http://www.blogtalkradio.com/intheknow) will have an on location broadcast from 7:00pm ...
(Akiit.com) When you mention the name Tyler Perry to white people, you receive a blank stare. When you mention the name to Black people, there is a clear sign of recognition and admiration. Perry is a non-entity in the general (read: White) culture – and that includes the elite Liberal ...
(Akiit.com) Fatherhood is receiving a great deal of attention these days due to new funding initiatives by the Federal government and an increased awareness in the costs associated with children being reared in “fatherless” homes. For the sake of brevity, I won’t focus on the numbers, statistics, or studies, yet ...
(Akiit.com) I have been convinced that many large public schools function like factory systems. You pop in one student and with the appropriate manipulations, the necessary conveyor belt rides and some pedagogical alchemy and you get the school product: a depoliticized consumer who is more prepared to select the next ...