UNCF and The Steve Fund Announce New Partnership Focused on Addressing HBCU Student Mental Health.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Students at the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) will have greater access to mental health supports and resources as the result of a new partnership between the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and The Steve Fund, both organizations announced today. The ongoing pandemic and heightened racial […]

School Curriculums And The New Politics Of Fear.

Tweet (Akiit.com) There are two undisputable facts. First, most people really have little understanding of the true meaning of critical race theory (CRT). Second, there is little evidence that critical race theory is taught in K-12 classes. The means by which students learn about the past represents the latest rallying cry among political conservatives. For that […]

Books Like Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ Reveal the Ugly Truth About America — And the Truth Will Set Us Free.

Tweet (Akiit.com) During my matriculation as a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary, one of the most provocative conversations I would ever have occurred during a forum of interdisciplinary doctoral students with a guest lecturer — one of my favorite authors, Toni Morrison. Morrison had recently received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for “Beloved” — […]

Parents Have Peaked Behind the Curtain.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The war on terror was codified after the attack on our nation on September 1, 2001, with the institutionalization of the Patriot Act and establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Theoretically, this agency would be aimed at confronting attacks on the U.S. from abroad. My have things changed since then. After some nudging by […]

Black Parents Stop Sending Your Children To White Schools.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Sometimes, I wonder what is wrong with Black America and my African American brothers and sisters? We still have not learned from the past and we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again; even though, racist white America continues to piss, defecate, stomped, humiliate, beat, assault, killed and then laugh […]

Professional Learning on Clubhouse Is Changing the Vision of PD for Educators.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The newest and one of the most engaging social media apps is supercharging professional development. Teachers are not sitting in mass in classrooms or conferences rooms they are comfortably at home, on the road with their families, alone enjoying a coffee/tea and snacks or other relaxing activities while engaged in Clubhouse in rooms […]

Why Ole Conservatives Loathe any Talk of Critical Race Theory.

Tweet (Akiit.com) There’s nothing new about the term critical race theory. The term goes back almost four decades. Then, a handful of Black scholars and writers came up with the term to name what for decades had simply been called battling racism. The reaction at first was, well really, no reaction. It seemed a puzzling, […]

President Joe Biden Lets His True Self Show.

Tweet (Akiit.com) The public image of Joe Biden is the affable dunce, a sort of Mr. Magoo wandering through the day. As others around him engage in shady activities and make money from questionable, to put it mildly, activities Joe claims no knowledge of. He just skates through life trying to do the right thing, […]

Dems Follow the ‘Science’ and Reject Common Sense.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Every time I hear Democrats sermonize about following “the science,” I feel as though I’m listening to members of the Flat Earth Society. Science is what the left wants to believe to be true. It has become a way to shut off debate, not advance it. Remember: These were the fools who told […]

Supreme Court Can Protect Black Lives By Ending Qualified Immunity.

Tweet (Akiit.com) Last year, we witnessed another crushing blow in the fight to end police violence against Black people. Only one of the three officers involved in the murder of Breonna Taylor was charged in the case. However, they were not charged for causing her death; rather, they were indicted on charges of destroying property. […]

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