(Akiit.com) Two legislative initiatives recently signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer have brought to the national forefront a conservative driven agenda that many critics say is racist in one instance, and in the other, an attempt to set back advances in educational diversity. On April 23, Senate Bill ...
(Akiit.com) The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) is hosting the 52nd Anniversary of African Liberation Day Between May 21, 2010 to May 31, 2010 at the following locations: Africa: Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Gambia, Senegal, Kenya, Zimbabwe Europe: London Caribbean: St. Thomas Canada: Toronto U.S.A.: Southern Region-Atlanta; Midwest Region-Illinois; Northeast Region-Washington ...
(Akiit.com) New book uses Bible to trace origins of humankind and contributions of blacks in America. The Legacy: Looking Back While Moving Forward by Laura Lee King examines the lineage of black Americans PORTLAND, Ore. (MMD Newswire) May 18, 2010 — In The Legacy: Looking Back While Moving Forward, Laura ...
(Akiit.com) Lately it seems all I can think about is getting away to someplace exotic. Wanderlust has taken over my mind and it’s all I can do to get any actual work done. (For those other easy listening fans out there Christopher Cross has been playing in my head on ...
(Akiit.com) *Forty. It’s a number I can’t get out of my mind. I’m not talking about 40 acres and a mule. Nor am I talking about 40 days and 40 nights. And I am not talking about 40 ounces of a malted, adult beverage. The number 40 that I can’t ...
(Akiit.com) The U.S. Senate recently reduced the sentencing disparities for possession of powder cocaine and crack, from 100-1 to 18-1. That’s hardly progress… The U.S. Senate recently reduced the sentencing disparities for possession of powder cocaine and crack, from 100-1 to 18-1. That’s hardly progress. Nothing symbolizes the conflicted state ...
(Akiit.com) Activists say the Obama administration has placed the war on terror above democracy in the Horn of Africa. Activists say the Obama administration has placed the war on terror above democracy in the Horn of Africa. Chris Flaherty, an American documentary film producer who’s married to a woman from ...
(Akiit.com) What happens when beauty, talent, charm, dignity and brains just aren’t enough? What happens when beauty, talent, charm, dignity and brains just aren’t enough? Long before her recent death at 92, Lena Horne had become a recluse, living alone with her memories. She had been a star for many ...
(Akiit.com) His nominee for the high court is qualified, but why weren’t more black women considered? His nominee for the high court is qualified, but why weren’t more black women considered? President Barack Obama needed only to look across his dinner table each evening or in the bed next to ...
(Akiit.com) According to some of the media I have read lately, I do not exist. Yet I live, breathe, and pen these words in support of Elena Kagan’s nomination to the Supreme Court. I am an African-American law professor at Harvard who was recruited by Elena Kagan during her deanship. ...