(Akiit.com) “… grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17). There is a rhythm to life: the rhythm of the falling rain that comes down from heaven and watereth the earth that it may bring forth seed for the sower and bread for the eater. There is the unforced ...
(Akiit.com) Jesus leads the Believer to a new Exodus – through death to a new life. Not only out of the world of Egypt through the Red Sea and the Wilderness, across the Jordan River into Canaan the Promised Land and so forth to Mount Zion and the New Jerusalem, ...
(Akiit.com) We’ve seen the success of Empire almost overnight. What else can you expect when you put Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard together? Magic! There is so much more to Taraji P. Henson than meets the eye, and I’m sure we’ve seen her in a catalog of films doing ...
(Akiit.com) Flint, Michigan is impoverished. The auto plants have closed. Forty percent of the city’s 100,000 residents live below the poverty level. It is majority minority. It’s been in fiscal crisis since 2011, with the state taking over budgetary control and a state-appointed “emergency manager” driving policy focused on cutting ...
(Akiit.com) Once Hillary Clinton became desperate over her all but certain loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries, she began to continually allude to the assassination of Robert Kennedy during the 1968 primary. She kept repeating that mantra as justification for why she didn’t simply get out of the ...
(Akiit.com) When you run a business, it can seem like everything falls squarely on your shoulders. You need to think about what employees you want to hire and how big you need your staff to be. There are other issues to consider as well like whether or not your business ...
(Akiit.com) Does it really matter who wins the Presidency? How can it matter to Black folks, considering the way we “play” politics? We have no power, no leverage, and little or no influence in the political arena, and even worse it seems we are reluctant to do what it takes ...
(Akiit.com) Michael Hiltzik, a columnist and Los Angeles Times reporter, wrote an article titled “Does a minimum wage raise hurt workers? Economists say: We don’t know.” Uncertain was his conclusion from a poll conducted by the Initiative on Global Markets, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, of ...
(Akiit.com) Let’s talk about the only thing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that’s the group that picks the Oscar nominees and winners, understands. That’s dollars and cents. African-Americans spend more, in fact far more, dollars proportionately on Hollywood films than any other segment of the film ...
(Akiit.com) There are certain moments in time when the weight of history is more noticeably acknowledged than at others. Many of us felt that weight last week as we listened to what would be President Barak Obama’s last State of The Union Address. The substance of the speech was not ...