(Akiit.com) By now, everyone has seen the video of a man in North Miami, Fla. – an unarmed Black man trying to calm a patient with autism – on the ground, his hands up, warding off police. Charles Kinsey was working with a patient who had a toy gun in ...
(Akiit.com) Babies and children are learning about the world around them from the moment they are born. A newborn will learn how to interpret key sounds and images to mean food, Mom, and Dad. Within just a couple of years, a small child will have learned to walk unaided, use ...
(Akiit.com) There are many things that can damage the company you built from the ground up. All of your hard work will be for nothing if you let that happen. Below are three things that will ruin your business, if you’re not careful: Poor Business Plan A business plan can ...
(Akiit.com) There was a time that character mattered; but apparently if you are Hillary Clinton, being a liar, an avowed corruptor of justice, with a lifelong career of undermining the rule of law you are viewed as presidential material. There is no acceptable or remotely justifiable reason for Hillary Clinton ...
(Akiit.com) Thursday night in Cleveland, Ohio Donald Trump will give the most important speech of his campaign, hot off the heels of his wife’s speech mishap. Trump’s speech will be dynamic, energetic and controversial. In his unconventional campaign, Trump has utilized his public relations skills like few if any before him. Donald ...
(Akiit.com) Those of sufficient age in America are aware that this election cycle is setting all manner of precedents. On the Democrat side, we have the first woman candidate for president, one who pretty much has a lock on that party’s nomination; her only real rival was an avowed communist, ...
(Akiit.com) As I write this letter I can not help but think of 2008 when this country was so full of hope as we watched you, a young African American, talk about unity and love. Many of us dreamt of the words you said just 4 years earlier. “This is ...
(Akiit.com) If you work in an office, you’ll be sat in a chair for a good chunk of time. It could be 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, or even more. And, with the office being the most popular workspace on the planet, a lot of us have ...
(Akiit.com) Neighborhoods plagued by gun violence are often compared to war zones. Whether the comparison is fair or not, the chances that young men who experience trauma in their neighborhood will end up in jail are astronomically high. Studies have shown a high correlation between neighborhood disorder and physical abuse. ...
(Akiit.com) As the Republican Party holds its national convention in Cleveland, Americans have been shaken by the shootings of police in Dallas and Baton Rouge, La., following the police shootings of black men in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minn. I spoke at the funeral of Alton Sterling in Baton ...
(Akiit.com) All eyes should be on Florida to see the seeds of change in black America. The issue is school choice and the nation’s largest private school choice scholarship program, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, enacted in Florida in 2001 under Gov. Jeb Bush. Students receive scholarships to attend the ...
(Akiit.com) “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal … The alternative is not blind repression or capitulation to lawlessness. It is the realization of common opportunities for all within a single society.” Those words weren’t written or spoken to describe today’s crisis of race ...