(Akiit.com) Before African Americans created the blues and gospel music, work songs and spirituals were their mainstays. The phenomenal history of black survival from the Middle Passage of the Trans-Atlantic African Slave Trade, through chattel slavery, and on to present-day discrimination, is marked by an ability to release repressed emotion. ...
(Akiit.com) Philadelphia, PA – Former students of St. Joseph Hospital’s School of Nursing recently filed a civil suit against the school alleging breach of contract and fraud. The Liberation of Students Rights Group of Philadelphia (LSRGP), a group of five African American women, allege they were wrongfully released from the ...
(Akiit.com) Do not back up; do not back down, black America. Do not give in another inch, not one iota. Hold the line! To do this, there have to be some necessary changes. Some would say there must be sacrifices. Call it what you will, but most blacks in so-called ...
(Akiit.com) Here’s a very interesting read, which you should find helpful and informative. Proper digestion of your food relieves discomfort from overeating and naturally aids in preventing gas, bloating, burping, heartburn and indigestion. Foods high in complex carbohydrates, such as grains and legumes, are the primary foods responsible for bloating, ...
(Akiit.com) The most recent figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that blacks represent 15.6 percent of the overall 10 percent of unemployed American workers. Even with the slight improvement in unemployment rates among African-Americans, recent reports note that college-educated black men can’t find work and that a minority’s ...
(Akiit.com) Whew. I’m glad that’s over. Last night President Obama, struggling to get a grasp on the proverbial broom he needs to clean up the incompetence and corruption left by the Bush-Cheney administration, finally laid out his plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan. He told a skeptical nation that ...
(Akiit.com) Marriage is hard. The current economic downturn has caused distress and turmoil in many marriages. Black men are losing jobs at a faster rate than black women, representing the largest gender gap across ethnic groups. The 17.1 percent unemployment rate for black men is not media hype but a ...
(Akiit.com) The very idea of a black unemployment crisis would start to sound as antique as expressions like “interracial couple” and “token black” if we could just lose two of the things currently plaguing black America. First, we have the most crippling myth distracting the black community. I don’t mean ...
(Akiit.com) As we approach the end of the millennium’s first decade, it is clear that many of the lessons from the twentieth century have gone unheeded. With America embroiled in two wars, unemployment in the double-digits and a population divided over the policies of America’s first Black president, Black Americans ...
(Akiit.com) Three years before he took it upon himself to pee on a little girl’s campfire on national television, rapper Kanye West’s face appeared on the cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine. Next to the purposefully scowling image was the cover line, “Brash genius.” West is a lot of things. Ambitious, ...