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Book Review: Black and Ugly

July 15, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Shocked?! You should be. I know I am. Before any of you say anything, I admit that I am somewhat surprised to be reading T. Styles latest novel, Black and Ugly. I began reading the book with a few preconceived notions, which after reading the novel were not disproved. What caught me unaware […]

Book Review: African American History for Dummies

July 15, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) “African-American history, to be clear, is so much more than a handful of extraordinary individuals or practices like slavery, Jim Crow, and civil rights. A lot of it is painful, but it’s also inspiring and triumphant… It took the Civil War, the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and a lot of struggle […]

Book Review: Business Unusual

July 15, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Being About the Lord’s Business Every so often, a self-published book beats the odds and grabs the attention of enough readers to draw an offer from a traditional publisher. I sure hope that this happens for this book. Dr. Linda Beed, an emerging Christian author and veteran educator has recently released her debut […]

Book Review: Color Me Butterfly

July 15, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Domestic Abuse: A Generational Curse? This book spans a 60 year period in the lives of a family of strong African American women who survived domestic abuse one generation after another. Very well written and easy to follow this book is a classic literary gem. Told by the very eloquent third generational daughter, […]

Book Review: Freedom’s Journal: The First African-American Newspaper

July 15, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akitt.com) “While the Constitution declares that all men are born free and equal, the wise corporation of the city of Washington… see proper to proscribe the rights of a certain portion of the community… Ought such laws to exist? Ought Congress to allow Washington, the spot which alone of all others should be sacred […]

Press Release: “GrandMamma’s Prayers”

July 13, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) James Langston’s book, “GrandMamma’s Prayers is now available through Lulu Publishing Enterprises, Inc. NAPLES, ITALY, July 2007 – When we think of GrandMamma, we often think of food, Sunday afternoons, and church. GrandMamma’s Prayers records a simpler time in life when people cared about you, not because of what you had, but who […]

Press Release: Getting a Grip: Timelessness in a Temporary World

July 13, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) Balancing Christian and spiritual living with being a black American in a world that seems to be falling backward in time instead of going forward? In the mid-1980’s, I read a book by Charles R. Swindoll titled “Strengthening Your Grip: Essentials in an Aimless World.” That book taught me a lot, and stuck […]

Alex Haley – Aboard the African Star – Press Release

May 1, 2007 by  
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Tweet (Akiit.com) After working on the book for more than a decade, Haley was stuck — and desperate I just love to get out in the ocean. You are really out there, thinking in ways you haven’t thought before. The best writing I ever possibly could do was after The Digest helped me go to […]

Poet Nikki Giovanni hails the ‘Acolytes,’ sounds the call for power poetry

April 18, 2007 by  
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Tweet Book Review: Acolytes (Akiit.com) Nikki Giovanni is a name recognizable to poetry readers and anyone else who was intellectually living and breathing during the Black Arts Movement. She is the author of at least 30 books for adults and children and the recipient of almost an equal number of honorary degrees. She has been […]

Reunion Format Supports Family Economic Advancement

April 9, 2007 by  
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Tweet San Francisco, CA (Akiit.com) – The Financial-Quest Group (FQ-Group) has begun to market an economic advancement program that’s anchored by the family reunion format. Over 200,000 family reunions occur in the U.S. each year and more than 37% of U.S. adults attend these events. “Family reunions offer an excellent opportunity to promote economic advancement […]

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