(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 ...
(Akiit.com) I write this letter to the public in an attempt to provoke critical thought and in so doing possibly raise the level of discourse in relation to the matters and circumstances that affect the lives of African Americans and ultimately the world. Of the latest goings on in Atlanta ...
(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) Quick question: Who really knows what happened between Chris Brown and Rihanna? Quick answer: Only Chris Brown and Rihanna. By now, we should all be sick of hearing about the case, but the media won’t stop covering every small detail and society won’t lose interest. But what we should ...
(Akiit.com) “All his peoples moved on in life, he’s on the corners at night with young dudes it’s them he wanna be like It’s sad but it’s fun to him, right? He never grew up 31 and can’t give his youth, he’s in his second childhood†-NaS on “2nd Childhood” ...
(Akiit.com) Yes, this may sound arrogant and elitist but Mo’Kelly is ok with both of those criticisms. Some crimes simply “offend†Mo’Kelly. Wait…let’s clarify that. Crime in general is “offensive†but some crime is more offensive than others. For example, take Artis Ivey Leon Jr. and his uber-offensive behavior as ...
(Akiit.com) How many of you know who the best selling Black male singer in the world for 2008 was? I bet you’ll never get this right, without a few clues. Well, he’s 50 years old, considered washed up and too controversial to sell, plus the majority of his songs are ...
(Akiit.com) When we left our story, 19 year-old singer Chris Brown, during a lover’s quarrel, had allegedly assaulted his 21 year-old girlfriend, singer Rihanna. After the media got hold of the news, both performers slinked into seclusion while whatever happened between them that fateful night before the Grammys morphed into ...
(Akiit.com) I went to see the Tyler Perry movie “Madea Goes to Jail,” in which Perry plays a wise-cracking black grandmother, Madea, short for “Mother Dear” and ebonically pronounced “muh deah.” With an extensive criminal past that includes “supersize stripper,” attempted murderer and check fraud artist, Madea is a near-cult ...
(Akiit.com) After a weeklong silence, Chris Brown has finally spoken about the pre-Grammy incident in which he allegedly beat his girlfriend, Rihanna, with his fists until she was bruised and bloodied. But in the self-centered apology he issued on Sunday, Chris seems more interested in repairing his image than with ...
(Akiit.com) Trying to interview the loquacious Bill Cosby over the phone is sort of like trying to capture the full-blast output of a gushing fire hydrant in a plastic sandwich bag. On one end, the iconic entertainer unleashes a torrent of free-flowing, digressive soliloquies. On the other end, you futilely ...
(Akiit.com) It seems that everywhere I go, someone is talking about Notorious, the new movie about the life of the Notorious B.I.G, aka Biggie Smalls. I hear the excitement, but I can’t feel it. I guess for some, they loved the music and the man, so therefore, they want to ...