(Akiit.com) In an important show of bipartisanship, Congress is on the cusp of an historic step to help many of the most vulnerable children in our nation –those who are abused and neglected and at risk of entering foster care and lingering in group care. The U.S. House of Representatives ...
(Akiit.com) A new study by a Harvard economist, who happens to be black, finds cops less likely to use deadly force on black suspects vs. white. Angered by the deaths of Freddie Gray and Michael Brown, black men in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ferguson, Missouri, respectively, who died at the hands of ...
(Akiit.com) If you’re taking up any kind of sporting activity this summer, you need to stay away from sports injuries. It isn’t always possible to avoid a particularly heavy clash, but injuries often occur for needless reasons. So, we’re going take a very brief look at five tips to help ...
(Akiit.com) Like most construction type companies, a road surfacing company is a great idea. At the minute, there is a lack of quality roads, and people are always complaining about new surfacing. If you can perform a quality job at an affordable price, you might make a killing. The thing ...
(Akiit.com) Your employees are arguably the most powerful and valuable asset within your business. They keep your business running each day by completing a whole host of major and minor tasks. Without them, you would find it incredibly difficult to continue your company’s progression. So taking care of your staff ...
(Akiit.com) Anyone who owns a construction company will know that there are a lot of rules with which you need to comply. Here’s a quick guide to making sure that your construction site remains on the right side of the law! Look out for substances getting into public areas When ...
(Akiit.com) Computers are necessary household items these days. We can do so much on them! From shopping to studying, it seems like the ways they help us in life are endless. But considering how often we use them, many of us put little thought into buying a new one. We ...
(Akiit.com) If you’re setting up a startup, then you’ll soon face the task of setting up your IT infrastructure. You probably know that this isn’t exactly an easy task. But there are several mistakes that even big companies make in this area. Remember these things when setting up your business’s ...
(Akiit.com) We’ve all heard this popular term or even know someone whose company has embraced it…. But is the cloud right for your business? In its most basic sense, cloud computing enables users to run programs from the Internet that traditionally would’ve run from an application installed locally on their ...
Being an insecure, chubby teenager in the Jim Crow south may have been a challenge, but growing up as that same teen might be far more difficult in today’s world. In my book, The Blessing of Movement, I chronicle the story of my sister, Sandra and how her actions impacted ...
(Akiit.com) Growing up in inner city Detroit and attending Detroit Public Schools in the ‘90s, the racial makeup of my classroom wasn’t much more diverse than a kid going to school in the heartland of Iowa. Just as theirs was uniformly white, mine was uniformly black. With that said, I’m ...
(Akiit.com) After Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota there was Dallas, Texas. After rogue cops unceremoniously killed two Black men, a deranged shooter killed five police officers. The shooter, identified as Micah Johnson, reportedly said that he wanted to kill White police officers. Too many commentators referred to his ...