(Akiit.com) The New York Times was deep on the late freight when it broke the story that big shot movie mogul and Miramax founder Harvey Weinstein had a long history of reportedly sexually harassing, abusing and victimizing countless women. Weinstein got away with the alleged sexual abuse that reportedly spanned three ...
(Akiit.com) Considering all his major accomplishments, why didn’t someone make a film about Thurgood Marshall’s life that was comprehensive? He was the lawyer who won Brown v. Board of Education, and was the founder of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, United States Solicitor General and the first African ...
(Akiit.com) Have you ever wondered what famous and powerful African Americans drive? If so, join the club. These men and women are included in the top 50 celebrities and their cars and can be found behind the wheels of some of the most expensive and luxurious cars on the road. Following ...
(Akiit.com) Over the last few years, music and other creative subjects, have been slowly but surely removed from the curriculum. Now, many schools don’t teach any form of music education at all. Choosing instead to use the time to teach extra science, maths and computer based courses, which are thought to ...
(Akiit.com) If you’re a music lover, you’ll listen to tracks stretching from the 1800s and beyond to the modern day. You’ll find yourself having to constantly try to convince people why they should listen to this range of music too, often due to its uplifting nature and often forgotten melodies that ...
(Akiit.com) Unless you have been living on the moon for the past couple of decades, you will be well aware of the looky-likey, samey-story appearance of the vast majority of Hollywood blockbusters in movies these days. Endless reboots and remakes are the order of the day, and it seems like there ...
(Akiit.com) Do you love music? If you do, it’s probably a big part of your life and who you are. But this can lead to problems whether you’re listening to music, playing it, or trying to turn it into a fully realised career. Here are a few of the issues in ...
(Akiit.com) Disgraced entertainer Bill Cosby did the predictable when he screamed there was racial bias in the jury selection in his scheduled trial. This wasn’t the first time Cosby screamed racial foul play. He did it when he claimed there was a racial motive behind the dozens of women who ...
(Akiit.com) Whenever someone decides to learn a musical instrument, they always opt for the classic choices. These are, the guitar, the piano, the flute and that’s pretty much it. That’s why when you go into a music class, ninety percent of people are playing these instruments or possibly the triangle if ...
(Akiit.com) In some ways, the ascent of Twitch should not have come as a surprise. This, after all, is the video games industry, and the video games industry is huge. And we mean, really huge: bigger than Hollywood and the music industry. This is all a roundabout way of saying that ...
(Akiit.com) My wife and I went to see Raoul Peck’s documentary I Am Not Your Negro. It was based upon James Baldwin’s writings and life experiences. It uses archival footage of Baldwin, pictures and footage of American history and Samuel L. Jackson’s voice reading and sharing some of Baldwin’s thoughts ...
(Akiit.com) There is a reason that music is popular all across the world: everyone enjoys it to some extent or other. As a natural form of human communication, music is one of those things that brings people together in whatever form it might appear in. If you have always wanted to ...