(Akiit.com) April 4 was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of our nation’s prophet of nonviolence, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the same day we received new warnings from international scientists that our world remains headed towards an environmental climate catastrophe, this date was a sad reminder that before ...
(Akiit.com) The confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson were different. I was in the room, six or so rows behind her. I work in advocacy, so I’ve sat through a few committee hearings in my time. Some were emotional, some boring, most unmemorable. But this was different. For one, ...
(Akiit.com) (**) She’s yanked, pushed and pulled. To here, there, everywhere. To times and places she couldn’t imagine. The very drably attired Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) owns and operates a laundromat with her nerdy looking husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). At least she thought he ...
(Akiit.com) Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history this week when the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. That is cause for celebration. When Judge Jackson is sworn in as Justice Jackson later this year, she will become the first Black woman to serve on our highest ...
(Akiit.com) We have all heard or listen to the story and news that broke out about two racist and angry white men chasing down and shooting at an Unarmed innocent black men making deliveries for his FedEx company. The Victim of this incident was 24 year old D’monterrio gibson, a ...
(Akiit.com) I do this thing in my head with President Joe Biden. When he gets on my nerves, I often call him President. When I want something from him or want to thank him for something, I call him Brother Biden. As I write this, I thank him for our ...
(Akiit.com) It is not uncommon to have an unexpected crisis or hardship become the catalyst that guides a person to new opportunities and success. Amid challenging times, the situation may no longer be tolerable or even available as an option, forcing a person to move on to what can potentially ...
(Akiit.com) “Almost everybody wants to be a hero. … Do the thing so improbable, so mind-blowing, that you’ll never be forgotten.” – From Hero in the Zone: Dwight Clark During my 10th-grade year, 1974-75, Dwight Clark was one of the most noticeable 12th graders to walk the halls of Garinger ...
(Akiit.com) About three weeks before the 2020 election, the New York Post published a bombshell, election-changing story about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, that, if true, derailed Joe Biden’s claim to know nothing about his son’s multimillion-dollar influence peddling. The Post claimed: “Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President ...
(Akiit.com) How could this be? Under our noses, social media and all, we now have photographs of a genocide. Are those mass graves full of innocent civilians, people whose only crime was that they were in the way of a madman and his army? What do you call that, if ...