(Akiit.com) Just four days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the inveterate warrior, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), introduced legislation to make his birthday a federal holiday. It took 15 years, hundreds of protests, a song and a tour to make Dr. King’s birthday ...
(Akiit.com) LAPD Chief Michel Moore wants a second five-year term as LAPD chief. It is up to the L.A. Police Commission and L.A. Mayor Karen Bass to approve his reappointment. The early indications are that they will. However, as I mentioned in a prior column on Moore and the LAPD, ...
(Akiit.com) I’ve written about the importance of judges a few times over the last year. And every time I do, I realize that many people have never met a judge. Or they have, but it was at a time when they’d rather have been anywhere else. So the idea that ...
(Akiit.com) (**1/2) It’s an illusion. When actress Naomi Ackie stands with her back to the camera, you stare at her clothes, wigs, physique and mannerisms and get tricked into thinking that’s Whitney Houston. Then she turns around, and it’s not. It’s a recurring mirage. A string of images that give Houston’s fans something ...
(Akiit.com) One of legendary comedian and social activist Dick Gregory’s off told jokes about Blacks and suicide went like this. “Whites when they want to do away with themselves jump out of a window in a tall building. Blacks when they want to do the same jump out of a ...
(Akiit.com) Autumn Robeson Monahan is a 17-year-old Black girl attending high school in Slaton, Texas. The senior, who transferred to Slaton High School when her parents relocated there from Ohio, hoped to be her high school valedictorian based on her stellar grades. Instead, she was subjected to regular, vile, racist ...
(Akiit.com) There may be better ways to disrespect African leaders than President Joe Biden’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit earlier this month, but if there are, they do not readily come to mind. Summit diplomacy is a term characteristically used to describe face-to-face negotiations between heads of state; for example, the 1961 ...
(Akiit.com) 2022 is about to end, and still no answer to the question: What caused the virus that’s killed 1,096,000 Americans so far? The Washington Post asks, “What is China hiding?” The more answerable question is what is our own government hiding? House Republicans are promising that when they assume ...
(Akiit.com) Cleveland, Ohio is a city that offers something of interest to everyone. From its world-famous Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to its stunning riverfront views, Cleveland has something to offer tourists from all walks of life. Then when it comes to accommodation, there is the Roost Cleveland Extended ...
(Akiit.com) (**) It’s a miscalculation. This film is built around a former slave seen in a horrific photo whose back bore the scars of whippings and evil vestiges of slavery. Reimagining his life is a noble endeavor, but this is the wrong execution. Aside from a brief interview and the ...
(Akiit.com) “There is an epidemic of hate facing our country. We’re seeing a rapid rise in antisemitic rhetoric and acts. Let me be clear: Words matter. People are no longer saying the quiet parts out loud. They are literally screaming them.” These are the opening remarks second gentleman Doug Emhoff ...
(Akiit.com) Last week, Donald Trump finally crossed the Rubicon. That is, he took to his social media platform and, for the first time, issued an explicit call to abolish the U.S. Constitution — the document he once swore to “preserve, protect and defend.” Still fuming over widespread election cheating that exists ...