(Akiit.com) I absolutely understand why you didn’t get the new Beyoncé album. *Newsflash, honey* it wasn’t made for you… and I’m going to need you to be cool with that. Now, I found quite a few of the comments in your piece to be highly “inflammatory and agitating.” As a ...
(Akiit.com) When I first heard that Prince Rogers Nelson had died, it felt like music died. Again. I have been in an extended season of mourning since the March 22nd death of Malik Izaak Taylor, better known as Phife Dawg, one-fourth of the legendary hip hop group A Tribe Called ...
(Akiit.com) Until I saw the film release calendar for 2016, I wasn’t sure blockbusters existed anymore. For those of you don’t know, a blockbuster wasn’t just a profitable film. It was film that caused people to literally queue around the block to go see it. You would go to the ...
(Akiit.com) The list of over 360 artists who have recorded a Rose Marie McCoy song includes some of the biggest names in the business: Nat “King” Cole, Sarah Vaughan, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Ike & Tina Turner, Shirley Caesar and many other legendary artists. I don’t know of ...
(Akiit.com) The ancient adage in TV commercial advertising is if people watch they’ll buy. If they don’t they won’t. In other words, it’s a numbers game, and the bigger the measured number of viewers who tune in to a TV show the more the cash registers jingle for the shows ...
(Akiit.com) Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith plan to boycott the February 28 Oscar ceremony because of the all White slate of major nominees for the awards. Blacks have been boycotting White events and White companies for at least 50 years with little progress to show for it. Today, Blacks ...
(Akiit.com) Every man has a place In his heart there’s a space And the world can’t erase his fantasies Take a ride in the sky On our ship, fantasize All your dreams will come true right away And we will live together Until the twelfth of never Our voices will ...
(Akiit.com) While I admit I’m a fan of Beyoncé and like the artistry to her new song formation and think she’s a great black performer, she should stick to music not politics. Basically, Beyoncé and her Black Panther groupies gave young black men license to kill last night during the ...
(Akiit.com) We’ve seen the success of Empire almost overnight. What else can you expect when you put Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard together? Magic! There is so much more to Taraji P. Henson than meets the eye, and I’m sure we’ve seen her in a catalog of films doing ...
(Akiit.com) Let’s talk about the only thing that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, that’s the group that picks the Oscar nominees and winners, understands. That’s dollars and cents. African-Americans spend more, in fact far more, dollars proportionately on Hollywood films than any other segment of the film ...
(Akiit.com) The arts present opportunities for us to be deeply uncomfortable and yet totally safe. And for me they have become a space for radical transformation. Most recently I was reminded of this during Lupita Nyongo’s performance in Eclipsed, a story of the women of the Liberian civil war, at ...
(Akiit.com) EBONY® Magazine today released its 70th Anniversary Collector’s Edition Cover. The cover of the December/January issue boldly urges its readers to “Stand For Something”. With a central focus on advocacy, audacity and the arts, the double issue also rolls out the 2015 Power 100 List, with a header that ...