Columbus, OH (Akiit.com) – Diversity Search Group Co-founder and former Vice President Eugene Edw. Curtain, III announces the launch of new firm with greater focus. Backed by a proven track record for success and a series of strategic partnerships, Curtain formed Diversity Search Partners, LLC to ensure diverse candidates receive ...
(Akiit.com) In March, we focused our attention to celebrate women’s history month; one of many worthy of national observance. While we have certainly made many important strides over the past decades, there is cause for concern due to the current state of our health as women of color. We hear ...
 Reviewed by Kam Williams (Akiit.com) “This book endeavors to piece together the broken utterances of 20 women into a seamless painting of understanding which is representative of Black women of the 19th Century… It is an examination of how the unique position of the African-American woman provides her with the ...
Reviewed by Idrissa Uqdah (Akiit.com) The Seduction of Mr. Bradley by Chicago author Minnie E. Miller tells a very different kind of love story, a love story complicated by preferences. These particular preferences are not always understood or accepted by society and that is where it gets complicated. Bill Bradley ...
(Akiit.com) Some singers take two-year breaks between albums. Rihanna is working on her third disc, just two years after releasing her first. “It’s a nonstop pace, very speedily, and Def Jam does not play, that’s all I can tell you,” she joked of her record label in an interview with ...
      Do people realize how rare this is?      (Akiit.com) On March 8th of this year I wrote in my column, The Saga Continues, an op-ed piece called Is Virginia’s apology for slavery significant and how could it affect the national debate.      Though written with a select audience in ...
     (Akiit.com) Denzel Washington has agreed to produce and possibly star in “Journal for Jordan,†a film based on the letters of a soldier killed in Baghdad during the Iraq war.      The project is based on a New York Times essay written by Dana Canedy, who described a 200-page ...
     (Akiit.com) Al Sharpton, the Hip Hop Summit Action Network’s Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis, and other community and religious leaders are planning a march to protest the alleged actions of G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo.      Billed as a “call to action and public grievance,†the rally is planned ...
    (Akiit.com) Chicago-born rapper-producer Kanye West is now the proud owner of a 3,300 square foot Beverly Hills mansion after paying a reported $7.2 million.      According to the Los Angeles Times, Ye’s new traditional-style crib includes six bedrooms, four bathrooms and park-like grounds of almost an acre. It had ...
    (Akiit.com) Every effort to scrap or modify the blatantly unfair minimum mandatory sentencing law for illicit drug abusers has crashed against two things.     The first was then President Bill Clinton’s half-hearted fight to change the disparity sentencing in the law in Congress in the mid-1990s.     Next, it ...