(Akiit.com) As we enter the final days of 2010, one of the outstanding issues of the past 12 months is the inadequate education that the majority of African American children and young adults are receiving throughout the United States. All parents, and in particular, African American parents, want the best ...
(Akiit.com) Maybe if its ominous presence didn’t live in my own back yard infecting my neighbors, I would be oblivious to its existence. And maybe, just maybe, since no one in my family has been recently diagnosed with this disease, it would just go away and I’ll be asked to ...
(Akiit.com) Considering his controversial explosion onto the scene with N.W.A in 1988, Ice Cube is a far cry from his Straight Outta Compton days and even further away from where you imagined he’d be 20 years after his solo debut, Amerikkka’s Most Wanted. His ninth studio album, I Am The ...
(Akiit.com) A panel of medical experts said Tuesday that cough medicines like Robitussin and Nyquil should continue to be sold over-the-counter, despite increased abuse among teenagers that has prompted calls to restrict sales of the products. The Food and Drug Administration panel voted 15-9 against a proposal that would require ...
(Akiit.com) For the first time in more than a generation, education is near the top of the American agenda; President Obama has called it “the economic issue of our time,” and has called for America to regain world leadership in the share of citizens with college degrees. We at United ...
(Akiit.com) Last month, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. While still in the midst of the most severe recession since the Great Depression, this legislation is being hailed as the most ambitious rewriting of the nations financial rules in decades. The Dodd-Frank ...
(Akiit.com) Why the media’s obsession with blaming “undercover brothas” for the HIV epidemic in black America is hurting us… Last Tuesday on The View, during a conversation about the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, guest host D.L. Hughley attempted to school America on ...
(Akiit.com) The popularity of alternative, or complementary, medicine has increased rapidly in the recent years. There are a number of different reasons why people consult alternative practitioners. But by far the most common reason is dissatisfaction with what orthodox medicine has to offer. Patients are frightened by the high incidence ...
(Akiit.com) *Forty. It’s a number I can’t get out of my mind. I’m not talking about 40 acres and a mule. Nor am I talking about 40 days and 40 nights. And I am not talking about 40 ounces of a malted, adult beverage. The number 40 that I can’t ...
(Akiit.com) The small country called Haiti’s new international fame comes at a huge price to its people. On January 12th 2010, mother earth shook during a 7.3 earthquake that left an estimated 230,000 Haitian people dead and another 300,000 injured. Underneath the rubble of debris, rescue workers found bodies of ...
(Akiit.com) This coming Thursday, April 22nd will be the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. This is a day that people are encouraged to think about the environment, and the effects that man’s day to day activities have upon the earth. It started as a movement based in college teach-ins on ...
(Akiit.com) NEW YORK (AP) — For Kenny and Lynette Seymour, last weekend’s black marriage gala was about celebrating their seven-year marriage. They got to meet other black couples while spending a romantic evening together. “Every time you meet another couple, you learn something new about yourself and relationships in general,” ...