Why Are Black Men Avoiding Marriage? Ask Former NFL Running Back Jerone Davison

Tweet Fairfield, CA (Akiit.com) – Pastor Jerone Davison is the author of the popular book The Spiritual Fragrance of a Woman – the Fragrance that Attracts the Right Man. Pastor Jerone is a young man who loves the people in his church and prays that their heart’s desires will be met. He is passionate about […]

Black Is Beautiful – Again!

Tweet Frankfort, KY (Akiit.com) – During the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960’s, the pride of Black Americans was elevated when the Black Arts Movement popularized the slogan “black is beautify.” In his debut book of poetry, When Heaven Smiles (Awesome Records, $9.95, ISBN: 978-1-893680-09-8) author David Shabazz is laying the groundwork for that slogan’s […]

Broken Utterances: A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women’s Social Thought

Tweet  Reviewed by Kam Williams (Akiit.com) “This book endeavors to piece together the broken utterances of 20 women into a seamless painting of understanding which is representative of Black women of the 19th Century… It is an examination of how the unique position of the African-American woman provides her with the ability to dissect the […]

The Seduction of Mr. Bradley

Tweet Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah  (Akiit.com) The Seduction of Mr. Bradley by Chicago author Minnie E. Miller tells a very different kind of love story, a love story complicated by preferences.  These particular preferences are not always understood or accepted by society and that is where it gets complicated. Bill Bradley a bisexual man falls […]

Beauty And The Beast

Tweet Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah (Akiit.com) Deatri King-Bey has stepped out of the box and given her readers a Black fairy tale in Beauty And The Beast that I really enjoyed.  Set in modern day Chicago; the story centers around millionaire business mogul, Bruce Maxwell, the beast and his beauty, Nefertiti Townes.  Bruce and Nefertiti […]

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

Tweet Book Reviewed by Kam Williams (Akiit.com) “The experimental exploitation of African-Americans is not an issue of the last decade or even the past few decades. Dangerous, involuntary, and non-therapeutic experimentation of African-Americans has been practiced widely and documented extensively at least since the 18th Century… The problem is growing… No other group as deeply […]

Not Easily Broken

Tweet Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah (Akiit.com) Can This Marriage Be Saved? Dave and Clarice have been married forever; yet the things that they do not know about one another could fill up a small house.  That is the basic problem in their marriage.  They have grown apart over the years, rather than together.  How many […]

Breastlessness

Tweet Reviewed by Jayne Cubbage (Akiit.com) Breastlessness by Nicole Bryant is both memoir and breast cancer resource guide. In the first half of the book, Bryant shares her own experience with the disease and she spares hardly a detail. She writes on first learning of her diagnosis, the denial and indecisiveness and the tug on […]

Forever Sentimental Vol. III: Agape Love

Tweet Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah (Akiit.com) Ohio Poet, Kenyatta is a man of many words.  His book  Forever Sentimental-AGAPE LOVE  is Volume Three in the Forever Sentimental book series, collections of poetry that speak straight from the heart.  A gifted wordsmith, the poems are well written.  They flow like a lazy river spreading emotional attachments […]

Inner-City Interludes

Tweet Reviewed by Jayne Cubbage (Akiit.com) Inner-City Interludes by Hoezee probably won’t go down in history as a literary classic.  Perhaps as an ode to the “hood” and the characters who play a role in the daily drama of life there but little else. The book provides a voice long overlooked by mainstream publishing and […]

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