(Akiit.com) After getting Home Depot to advertise in African-American newspapers, and pressuring Office Depot and T-Mobile Wireless to do likewise, black newspapers have a new target: Kohl’s Department Stores. Kohl’s is the target of a boycott orchestrated by Kimber, Kimber & Associates, a Fresno, Calif., advocacy advertising agency that represents ...
(Akiit.com) Radio Shock Jock Don Imus’ statements about the Rutgers University Women’s Basketball team have been widely condemned. His subsequent apology and remorse has been and will continue to be debated. You would like to think that someone with his bully pulpit would be smart enough to realize that words ...
(Akiit.com) The other day while returning home from a morning of running errands, my fourth grade son lamented that we were harming the environment by driving. I offered to pull the car over and let him walk home lest he cause any more damage. He thought about it a moment, ...
Black restaurateurs willing to invest in good taste (Akiit.com) Corey and Lamonica Smith are among a set of rising young African-American entrepreneurs who are adding flavor to the restaurant scene while helping to revitalize Milwaukee’s urban corridor. The Smiths are the owners and operators of Soche – it rhymes with ...
(Akiit.com) The reaction was swift and justifiably angry to shock jock Don Imus’s latest racist crack that the Rutgers women’s basketball players were nappy headed ‘hos’ (An even more curious characterization given Imus’s trademark floppy mop). Imus didn’t step over the line of racial incorrectness he obliterated it. He straddled ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Chicago, IL (Akiit.com) – Urban Influence Magazine, an official publication of the National Urban League, targets progressive African American professionals with a message of building wealth through social change. As the first publication of the Urban League distributed on newsstands nationwide, this occasion marks an historical achievement for the 97-year-old ...
     (Akiit.com) This past weekend, I watched the film “Amazing Grace.†This marvelous film tells the story of the battle abolitionist William Wilberforce waged to end the slave trade in the British Empire. While watching the film, I pondered the fact that our understanding of the origins of our liberty ...
Bowie, MD (Akiit.com) – Dr. Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, will open the 2007 Spring Arts Festival on Wednesday, April 4, 2007. Sponsored by the Departments of English and Modern Languages, Communications, Fine and Performing Arts, History and Government, and the University Honors Program, the ...
       (Akiit.com) Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama beamed as he sat beside Jesse Jackson as Jesse announced that he was formally endorsing Obama’s candidacy. The idea was that Jackson’s endorsement would give Obama a rocket boost with black voters. It won’t.     And there are two glaring reasons why. ...