(Akiit.com) If at first you don’t succeed in Georgia, try again in New York. At least, that’s what a woman who claims that Chris Rock is the father of her 13-year-old son is planning to do. Kali Bowyer told Georgia’s Statesboro Herald Thursday that she will be refiling a paternity ...
(Akiit.com) CBS has announced that they have fired Don “Nappy-Headed Hos” Imus for his controversial comments regarding the Rutgers women’s basketball team last week that caused a national outcry. So what? How about getting those “nigga lovin’, ho slappin’, bitch callin'” rappers dropped from their record labels? Can we get ...
(Akiit.com) NEW YORK, April 13, 2007 (UPI) — Dakota Staton, a 1950s jazz and blues singer known for her sassy style, has died in New York at the age of 76. Staton, in declining health for years, entered the 1957 music scene in a big way with a debut album, ...
(Akiit.com) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that radio host Don Imus’ comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team were “disgusting” and she was pleased he was fired. Imus called the women players “nappy-headed hos” — racist, sexist remarks that resulted in a barrage of protests ...
(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 ...
WASHINGTON (Akiit.com) – While the number of African-Americans who frequent the Internet continues to grow, White Web users maintain a good lead amidst the so-called digital divide, according to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study. What was once the “digital divide†has evolved into the “digital dimmer ...
(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) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81. Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the ...
(Akiit.com) COLUMBIA, S.C., April 12 — The NAACP plans a summit Saturday to address racism on college campuses months after white students at Clemson University held a party mocking black stereotypes and after the founder of a white supremacist group spoke there earlier this week. A student organization invited Jared ...
(Akiit.com) On Sunday, when more than 200 Major League Baseball players wear No. 42 jerseys to honor the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in the national pastime, it will be a reminder of past promises and a troubling present. The commemoration of Robinson’s historic debut will ...