(Akiit.com) The instant the news broke from Bend, Oregon that 22-year-old Barry Washington was shot dead by Ian Cranston in a bar dispute the messages, emails and calls poured into the Deschutes County District Attorney’s office. They all said one thing: remember Emmett Till. Till’s lynch murder in 1955 in ...
(Akiit.com) The war on terror was codified after the attack on our nation on September 1, 2001, with the institutionalization of the Patriot Act and establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Theoretically, this agency would be aimed at confronting attacks on the U.S. from abroad. My have things changed since then. ...
(Akiit.com) Sometimes, I wonder what is wrong with Black America and my African American brothers and sisters? We still have not learned from the past and we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again; even though, racist white America continues to piss, defecate, stomped, humiliate, beat, assault, ...
(Akiit.com) In an attempt to increase the white population and maintain white political control, the city of Atlanta expanded its borders northward to include the once rural area called Bulkhead. This successful annexation was made in 1952 under Mayor William Hartfield’s “Plan of Improvement”. Today, Atlanta is a far different ...
(Akiit.com) One of the best documentaries I’ve watched on Jim Jones and Jonestown was made by Stanley Nelson Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple. It chronicles the events and people involved with Jones San Francisco-based religious group called the Peoples Temple and ending with what culminated in Jonestown, Guyana ...
(Akiit.com) There is an old African proverb that captures one of the challenges that too many financially successful Black business leaders face today in America. That proverb is, “Your earned riches may engender envy and jealous criticism but be not dismayed by the foolishness of the envious.” Across the nation ...
(Akiit.com) Well, Ladies and Gentlemen and those who fit in between these categories must now understand that indeed it is true that Walmart Stores, Walmart neighborhood Market and the entire chains of Walmart across the United States of America have no interest in empowering and creating generational wealth for black ...
(Akiit.com) Yes, this is a message for all my Beautiful African American Queens who are strong. bold, independent, outspoken, with or without kids and strong supporters of the white woman #Me-too movement. According to national statistics and black demographic.com there is approximately 84% of African American woman who are currently ...
(Akiit.com) “You have no idea the hell storm you’re about to let loose.” No one would. This roughhewn “Micro Western” strips everything down to the basics. Down to the roots. Then it explodes. In the late 1880s, Henry (Time Blake Nelson, O Brother Where Art Thou), a widower, lives just outside ...
(Akiit.com) “We’ve got the president of the United States on our side,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “Got 96% of the members of the Democratic caucus in the House on our side. We got all but two senators at this point in the Democratic caucus on ...