(Akiit.com) Last week, the March of Dimes issued a report card for the United States preterm birth rate. The U.S. got a “D.” More than 540,000 babies are born too early. A baby is considered “pre-term” if it is born before 37 weeks. According to the Institute of Medicine, preterm ...
(Akiit.com) A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian traces black-Native American relations from the 1500s to the present. Black folks who always heard that grandma was an Indian—Cherokee, you say?—will get a sense of affirmation from a museum exhibit that just opened at the National Museum ...
(Akiit.com) In a year when the first African-American president in our nation’s history took office, it’s only fitting that Ebony magazine should celebrate black power with their December/January issue. The Celebration issue, the magazine’s first, will be on newsstands Tuesday, Dec. 1st. There will be eight different cover options available ...
(Akiit.com) I figured it was only a matter of time before some news organization would weigh in on how black men were living up to their man duties a year after voters put one of them in the White House. So CNN recently visited a Dallas barber shop and some ...
(Akiit.com) In 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court took a huge step toward joining nearly all nations on the globe when it banned teen executions. But it was only a step. The U.S. still locks up more juveniles for life without the possibility of parole than all nations combined. The High ...
(Akiit.com) Internet Movie Database sources report that Warner Brothers is spending over six million dollars to promote its new film The Blind Side. That’s twice the production budget of the controversial movie Precious. Toss that figure in with the myriad of contrasts between the two movies and the only apparent ...
(Akiit.com) In the now seemingly-distant halcyon days of the 2008 presidential campaign, the election of the first African-American president carried with it the promise of exorcizing the phantoms that have haunted America’s race relations. Many political observers surmised that with Barack Obama’s election, self-anointed and often polarizing black leader Reverend ...
(Akiit.com) Like many I do need to remodel my bathroom… Nice beautiful mahogany tiles will do wonders… Yes brighten up the area, so I can show it off… Well wife will do that… Anyway I do need to clean up this pc… It’s so slow now… I hope I don’t ...
(Akiit.com) I am always troubled by those in government claiming they have a moral imperative to enact this or that policy. A little digging often reveals that their motives are more self serving than moral. I am doubly troubled when those raising the moral banner tend to reject the very ...
(Akiit.com) Here’s what black folks can and should do about health care reform, no matter what Congress or the Obama administration do. 1. Go old school and revive the Black Panther Party free health clinic concept. Anyone who went through the turbulent 1960s – when FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ...