(Akiit.com) Quick question: Who really knows what happened between Chris Brown and Rihanna? Quick answer: Only Chris Brown and Rihanna. By now, we should all be sick of hearing about the case, but the media won’t stop covering every small detail and society won’t lose interest. But what we should ...
(Akiit.com) During a “Meet the Press” round-table earlier this month, NBC’s David Gregory turned to Rutgers University economist William Rodgers for an assessment of President Barack Obama’s overseas trip. Rodgers said he’d give the president a grade of either A-minus or B-plus. There was nothing remarkable about the discussion. Yet ...
(Akiit.com) It’s not clear if Arizona State University President Michael Crow had any say in the decision not to grant President Obama, the school’s commencement speaker, an honorary degree. But one thing’s for sure the dumbest thing that school officials said in telling why they won’t grant an honorary degreee ...
(Akiit.com) California – I heard through the grapevine that California’s Black businesses are being left out of significant economic opportunities, not only as the state attempts to deal with a shrinking budget, but also as it decides how to spend major stimulus funding provided by the federal government. Marvin Gaye ...
(Akiit.com) The freedom to form and join unions is a fundamental right protected by our constitutional freedom of association, our nation’s labor laws, and international human rights laws, including the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a right for which millions of Americans have struggled. The freedom to ...
(Akiit.com) Not according to Randy Stelly in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He believes they speak for a segment of the population of African Americans, but not for him or for others. “Remember,†he said, “the African American community is not homogeneous and shouldn’t be treated as such, which it often is by ...
(Akiit.com) [President] Barack Obama is following President Bush’s dour treatment of Haitians. In line with policies put in place by Bush, the United States is set to deport more than 30,000 Haitians to their impoverished homeland. Hundreds of Haitians have been put in camps awaiting the return home, while others ...
(Akiit.com) “All his peoples moved on in life, he’s on the corners at night with young dudes it’s them he wanna be like It’s sad but it’s fun to him, right? He never grew up 31 and can’t give his youth, he’s in his second childhood†-NaS on “2nd Childhood” ...
(Akiit.com) There are three primary determinants of success and happiness in life: How you spend your time; how you spend your money and how you use your brain. In this week’s commentary, we will skip socio-political analysis and focus instead on some motivational advice for the brain. In preparation for ...
(Akiit.com) The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first ...