(Akiit.com) Imagine what she’d say about being sold at half the price of white Barbie. To Whom It May Concern, After all of the recent controversy over a silly photo that was taken of my friend Barbie and me, I’ve decided it’s time to speak up. We were hanging at ...
(Akiit.com) Michael Jordan’s takeover of the Bobcats makes him the only black majority owner of a major U.S. sports franchise… Michael Jordan, pro basketball’s greatest player, and a lackluster executive for two franchises, once said in a Nike commercial, “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. ...
(Akiit.com) Tavis Smiley’s summit will talk the talk, but where’s the grassroots follow-up? Tavis Smiley’s summit will talk the talk, but where’s the grassroots follow-up? I’ve never been much of a fan of Tavis Smiley’s annual State of Black America confab, which struck me as an extravaganza of excessive Negro ...
(Akiit.com) Diddy (aka, Sean Combs) is in talks to purchase Crystal Palace, a struggling soccer team based in South London. It has been reported that Diddy is offering the equivalent of approximately $550 million to purchase the team, which filed for bankruptcy in January of this year. If the deal ...
(Akiit.com) How a Cleveland entrepreneur lost everything and bounced back after tangling with an infamous con man… How a Cleveland entrepreneur lost everything and bounced back after tangling with an infamous con man. Entrepreneur Phil Davis has experienced his share of ups and downs in his business life, including shuttering ...
(Akiit.com) His baby sister said it best via an old Joni Mitchell sample in one of her hits from the late ’90s: “You don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.” Now, nine months after Michael Jackson’s sudden death at age 50, Sony, his longtime label, is ready to cash ...
(Akiit.com) Recognizing the importance of the African-American vote in recent presidential and congressional elections, conservatives have reverted to an old tactic in an attempt to court our support. It goes like this, take the a limited version of facts, ignore the ones that inconveniently reveal the bigger picture or messy ...
(Akiit.com) LAS VEGAS (AP) — Oddsmakers didn’t take long to make Tiger Woods the Masters favorite. Even his fellow competitors say they can see him trying on another green jacket. They’re expecting the Tiger of old at Augusta National. That might be because it’s the only Tiger they know. I ...
(Akiit.com) Well my tarheels won last night… Next up is Mississippi State… Still need to find out if we have another home game… Carmichael was rocking, and helped energize the team… I do need to read over the best diet pills ad a friend placed in the paper… He is ...
(Akiit.com) The throng of angry whites jeered, catcalled, and spat out borderline racial insults at the small group of mostly black protesters. This wasn’t a march against Jim Crow in Montgomery, Birmingham, Jackson, Mississippi, or Cicero, The year wasn’t 1963. The charged racial confrontation happened on March 14, 2010 in ...