(Akiit.com) HBCU Xavier University of Louisiana, which sends more African-American students to medical school than any other college in the country, announces groudbreaking cancer research. The latest findings in a study conducted in the Ireland Lab at Xavier University of Louisiana demonstrate that a newly developed ‘super cocktail’ of six phytochemicals ...
(Akiit.com) The staff at the Los Angeles Free Press was excited in October 1972 when they got word that United Farmworkers of America’s founder and President Cesar Chavez would be stopping by our offices. I was a bit on edge because I was assigned to interview him. My edginess stemmed ...
(Akiit.com) After less then 75 days in office, the mainstream media is already writing obituaries for the Trump administration. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry from the absurdity of it all. Even Juan Williams of Fox News writes, “But it is no liberal fantasy to say the odds ...
(Akiit.com) Profiling is needlessly a misunderstood concept. What’s called profiling is part of the optimal stock of human behavior and something we all do. Let’s begin by describing behavior that might come under the heading of profiling. Prior to making decisions, people seek to gain information. To obtain information is ...
(Akiit.com) Over the next several days, across the United States, people will pause in solemn remembrance of the 49th anniversary of the tragic assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4, 1968. Back then, I was a young, college student and staff member of ...
(Akiit.com) Local business Planting People, Growing Justice (“PPGJ”) has been chosen as a winner of The 2017 American Small Business Championship hosted by SCORE, the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, and generously supported by Sam’s Club, a leading U.S. membership club serving small businesses since 1983. The ...
(Akiit.com) Whenever someone decides to learn a musical instrument, they always opt for the classic choices. These are, the guitar, the piano, the flute and that’s pretty much it. That’s why when you go into a music class, ninety percent of people are playing these instruments or possibly the triangle if ...
(Akiit.com) In some ways, the ascent of Twitch should not have come as a surprise. This, after all, is the video games industry, and the video games industry is huge. And we mean, really huge: bigger than Hollywood and the music industry. This is all a roundabout way of saying that ...
(Akiit.com) Many people are under the impression that staying healthy and eating right is expensive. It’s true, it can be, and there is certainly evidence to suggest obesity is caused by socioeconomic factors. That said, despite the supposed high costs of staying healthy, there are ways to do it on a ...
(Akiit.com) It doesn’t matter whether you’re financially well-off or just lead a modest lifestyle with an average salary job. Everyone should have some degree of financial planning in their lives, from the moment they leave college up until the time they retire. And even in our twilight years, we still need ...