(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, ...
Lawmaker: Barring Coretta King portrait from capitol worse than Imus slur (Akiit.com) ATLANTA – A bid to hang Coretta Scott King’s portrait in the state Capitol died in a legislative committee Wednesday, with the chief supporter comparing the failure to Don Imus’ slur against the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. ...
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) CHICAGO — For African-American women, hair has been the battleground for definitions of beauty. And when it comes to their hair, no word is more incendiary than “nappy.” So when Don Imus described members of Rutgers University’s women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos,” he not only devalued a talented ...
(Akiit.com) The Rutgers’ women’s basketball team and coach C. Vivian Stringer were scheduled to appear on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” Thursday as furor continues over remarks made about the team by radio host Don Imus. Stringer and the 10 team members will appear live via satellite, a spokeswoman for Harpo ...
Candidate faces first test on handling issues of race (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON — With the Rev. Al Sharpton leading calls Monday for radio host Don Imus to be fired over racially insensitive remarks, Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign avoided the controversy throughout the day. Not until Monday evening, five days after ...
(Akiit.com) HAMPTON — Hampton University has completely pulled its investments from Sudan and from companies that do business in the African nation, HU President William Harvey said Monday. University officials are taking a stand against the genocide in the nation’s Darfur region, Harvey said. “With the atrocities that the Sudanese ...
Revolutionary War Role Would Be Recognized (Akiit.com) WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Connecticut native’s decades-long fight for a monument to the thousands of black soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War took an important step forward recently when U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd and other lawmakers introduced legislation that would let it ...
(Akiit.com) An attorney for D.C. Council member Marion Barry is urging a federal judge to uphold a recent ruling that has kept his client and former mayor out of prison. The lawyer, Frederick D. Cooke Jr., formally asked Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan on Friday to uphold the ruling after ...
(Akiit.com) Joseph Blue has lived in San Francisco for 20 years and toughed out the drastic decline in its black population, a phenomenon that persists despite being recognized for decades as a problem. Neighborhoods that once thrived with African American culture and black-owned businesses have all but disappeared. “San Francisco ...