(Akiit.com) The only way a person can make informed decisions and use medicines safely is to know what information is important to obtain from health professionals, how to incorporate the medicine into your daily lifestyle, how to manage side effects, when to seek medical help and how to keep track ...
(Akiit.com) The black journalism students here at Syracuse often come to me to find out how the industry works. They sometimes instinctively wonder if their professors’ stories about being in a CBS newsroom in 1982 are going to help them survive in a world run by Twitter, Myspace and Facebook. ...
(Akiit.com) President Obama will be traveling to Denmark to lobby on behalf of Chicago, his hometown, for the 2016 Summer Olympics. He will be the first American president in modern times to pitch for a city at the International Olympic Committee meeting. By the mere fact that he is making ...
(Akiit.com) President Barack Obama did not speak it first nor proclaim it to be in place. There has been talk of a “Post-Racial†society, but simply put, it is not yet here. And it can not be here when racist groups are sprouting all over the nation to oppose President ...
(Akiit.com) In recent weeks, the Obama administration has come under considerable fire, as it has attempted to advance its agenda regarding national health care reform. Much of the opposition directed towards the President’s plan has expressed itself in a manner which many believe to pertain less to the proposal and ...
(Akiit.com) Now I’m gonna say, right out the box, this might not be a column you want your children to read—or maybe you will. I know my publishers usually don’t like profanity laced commentary, and Lord knows black people have had a reason to cuss lately, but I’ve always been ...
(Akiit.com) Speaking to NBC News Anchor Brian Williams former president Jimmy Carter (taking a breather between having tea with dictators and lunatics) proffered that not only was South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson’s inappropriate outburst during President Obama’s speech before a joint session of congress fueled by racism, but the wider ...
(Akiit.com) He’s just not good enough for Ntozake Shange. Getting his hot little hands on Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf was coup of the year for Tyler Perry. Not only will he produce and direct the upcoming film version, ...
(Akiit.com) If ACORN manages to survive the current maelstrom of attacks from right-wing ideologues, one of its first acts ought to be to give its workers an orientation session on what real power is. Apparently, it’s a lesson that some of their folks sorely need. I’m talking about the ACORN ...
(Akiit.com) I do need to clean up around this place, as it’s pretty junk at the moment… It’s just with work, I’m to tired to do any cleaning once I get home… Still I’m a neat person, and like for the house to be the same… Oh well let me ...