(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 ...
(Akiit.com) One of the first Broadway plays I ever saw was Melvin Van Peeble’s Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death. A. Robert Phillips, who led the Black Talent Program at Boston College, arranged for a group of us undergraduates to attend the play, have dinner, and enjoy New York ...
(Akiit.com) Conservatives are increasingly looking for alternatives to mainstream products and services as we’re getting kicked out of society. We’ve been kicked off of social media platforms, hosting providers, payment providers, domain name registrars, fundraising sites and more. That’s defensive mode. But we should also be in offensive mood, aggressively avoiding ...
(Akiit.com) They say when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When it comes to Vice President Kamala Harris, she can count on energetic admirers in the press who take on the task of making lemonade out of her lemons. Take Washington Post White House reporter Cleve Wootson Jr., who ...
(Akiit.com) Yes, Black America! every time you call a 911 dispatch operator for any type of assistance at home, work and public places, they will send the race soldiers aka (white police officers), who are only bringing death to you and your love ones. These racist, bias, prejudice, double standards ...
(Akiit.com) It’s the biggest political hoax since Titus Oates’s allegations of a “Popish Plot” to assassinate King Charles II in 1678. Oates’s charge of a Jesuit conspiracy swept through London and led to the execution of four innocent men before Oates was proved a fraud. The full consequences of the ...