(Akiit.com) On the evening news, I watched a segment about summer school. The benefit of classes year round, said the report, is that kids learn more in a shorter amount of time and thus leave the school system earlier. Summer school, it was said, keeps them out of trouble. The ...
(Akiit.com) A mother recently said to me, “My Life is Not for Me;” my response…and whose fault is that?” More often than not, it appears as though life: work, children, obligations, suffering health, appointments, exercise, school, commitments, family, pets, church the list is endless, keeps us moving in the fast ...
(Akiit.com) With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work ...
(Akiit.com) In any given year 26 percent of American adults suffer from mental disorders. Think about it, when you walk down the street, at least one out of every four or five people you pass is suffering form some form of mental illness. As Congresswoman Giffords continues to make a ...
(Akiit.com) If you want to have a baby and don’t have a partner, should you take the leap on your own before it’s too late? “I never thought I’d be here.” That’s what Beth Espy thought of her life about two years ago. She was 40 years old, single and ...
(Akiit.com) As we enter the final days of 2010, one of the outstanding issues of the past 12 months is the inadequate education that the majority of African American children and young adults are receiving throughout the United States. All parents, and in particular, African American parents, want the best ...
(Akiit.com) Maybe if its ominous presence didn’t live in my own back yard infecting my neighbors, I would be oblivious to its existence. And maybe, just maybe, since no one in my family has been recently diagnosed with this disease, it would just go away and I’ll be asked to ...
(Akiit.com) Considering his controversial explosion onto the scene with N.W.A in 1988, Ice Cube is a far cry from his Straight Outta Compton days and even further away from where you imagined he’d be 20 years after his solo debut, Amerikkka’s Most Wanted. His ninth studio album, I Am The ...
(Akiit.com) A panel of medical experts said Tuesday that cough medicines like Robitussin and Nyquil should continue to be sold over-the-counter, despite increased abuse among teenagers that has prompted calls to restrict sales of the products. The Food and Drug Administration panel voted 15-9 against a proposal that would require ...
(Akiit.com) For the first time in more than a generation, education is near the top of the American agenda; President Obama has called it “the economic issue of our time,” and has called for America to regain world leadership in the share of citizens with college degrees. We at United ...
(Akiit.com) Last month, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. While still in the midst of the most severe recession since the Great Depression, this legislation is being hailed as the most ambitious rewriting of the nations financial rules in decades. The Dodd-Frank ...
(Akiit.com) Why the media’s obsession with blaming “undercover brothas” for the HIV epidemic in black America is hurting us… Last Tuesday on The View, during a conversation about the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, guest host D.L. Hughley attempted to school America on ...