(Akiit.com) We must develop the character, creativity, consciousness, competence and compassion to save, strengthen and sustain the black family in particular, and all families in general. Our families need real solutions and real transformation. Now is the time for our black leadership to restore and rebuild black families. You don’t ...
(Akiit.com) August will be declared Star Jones Reynolds Month. That’s when her article will debut in Glamour Magazine about how she lost weight and the premiere of her new talk show. When Star joined The View, it was one of the highly rated talk shows. What was more impressive was ...
(Akiit.com) The old Ferguson Hotel in Charleston is long gone but memory of it, like that of others of the kind in the country, lingers on in the tradition of black-owned hotels that goes way back. Today, such ownership depends more on partners or partnerships than on the enterprising individual ...
(Akiit.com) _ Beverly Hills–Black Entertainment Television is exploring the launch of several new linear and broadband channels for distribution as early as next year, BET president Debra Lee told Akiit News Sunday. Lee, who spoke to Akiit News immediately after the network’s Television Critics Association tour session here, said the ...
(Akiit.com) So they tried to put the n-word to death the other day, placed it into a casket and laid it to rest. Oh, it made for a good public relations effort. The NAACP conducted the ceremony in Detroit, and the evening news showed the video of dignified black men ...
Los Angeles, CA (Akiit.com) – The NACCP and non-affiliates have been performing mock funerals of the n-word around the country, burying the term, its negative connotations, and condescending use. The most recent funeral occurred July 9, 2007, during the NAACP Detroit Convention weekend. The purpose and importance of these mock ...
(Akiit.com) The point in time when all we were advised to do to stay healthy was to take an apple a day, to keep the doctor away, is over. Even as recently as 15 years ago we were in fact able to do less and get more, but back then ...
(Akiit.com) FOUR YEARS AGO, researchers identified a surprising price for being a black woman in America. The study of 334 midlife women, published in the journal Health Psychology, examined links between different kinds of stress and risk factors for heart disease and stroke. Black women who pointed to racism as ...
(Akiit.com) I was recently watching a panel on sexism in Hip-Hop and one of the topics mentioned was how black women feel Black men no longer love them. I believe a quote attributed to Jill Scott asking, “Who loves us?” became central to the dialogue. As a Black male, I ...
(Akiit.com) At the top of the White racist, sexist social structure, says Eldridge Cleaver in Soul on Ice, is the White man (the “Omnipotent Administratorâ€). Next comes the White woman (the “Ultra-feminine dollâ€). Then the Black woman (an “Amazonâ€); and last and least, like a fired worker on an employment ...
(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. ...
(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 ...