Are you ready for one of the largest student service projects in the nation? On Saturday March 24, more than 2,000 college students from FAMU, FSU and TCC will rally to express their gratitude for the Tallahassee community. The Big Event is an annual occasion that incorporates service-oriented activities for […]

Photo credit: Brandon Jones Nancy Boyd knows how to have a good time. More importantly, she wants to make sure students at FAMU have a good time on campus to balance the stresses of college life. Boyd works in the Office of Student Activities on Florida A&M’s campus and serves […]

Teach For America is dedicated to giving all students a great education. Photo credit: Teach For America    Students across the United States are being encouraged to take the lead in classrooms and fight against ongoing education inequalities by becoming a part of organizations and programs like Teach For America […]

Middle school students clapping after Michelle Bono, event facilitator and influential speaker, completed her presentation.  Photo credit: Jessica Gardner The Leon County Health Department along with Florida A&M University’s School of Allied Health Sciences hosted the 12th annual 2018 Students Working Against Tobacco leadership summit on Feb. 22 in the […]

Devante Jefferson is a music producer, radio personality and entrepreneur. You may know him better as “Backpack Beatz.” The 26-year- old FAMU alum is originally from Milton. Backpack learned to play the piano and the drums so his transition into producing was an easy one. He quickly started […]

Students in the Tallahassee Future Leaders Academy visiting FAMU.  Photo credit: Willie Williams  The Tallahassee Future Leaders Academy (TFLA) is a premier leadership program that provides teens with mentorship, job readiness training, financial literacy education and summer employment.  The program utilizes an eight-week innovative curriculum, that includes two weeks of […]

Natasha Trethewey smiling as Professor Natalie King-Pedroso speaks kind words about her poetic journey. Photographed by: Ke’Neesha Weaver Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th Poet Laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey, had an intimate gathering with students for the Tenth Annual Spring Literary Forum on Friday in the Black Archives. […]

An overflow of students, alumni and lovers of literature spilled into the halls of the Frederick Humphries Science Research auditorium in honor of keynote speaker, Natasha Trethewey. Florida A&M University’s Department of English and Modern Languages hosted the 10th Annual Literacy Forum Friday evening. Inspired by Black History Month, […]

The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering held an open house on Saturday. Photo credit: Alexandria Mitchell Science doesn’t have to be intimidating. That was one of the messages on Saturday when the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering hosted an open house to introduce engineering topics for the scientifically curious. Citizens young and old […]

Tallahassee downtown market.   A survey of 174 cities in America was released earlier this month by wallethub.com, It provided rankings based on healthcare, food, fitness, and green space – like the quality of parks and walking trails per capita.  Tallahassee ranked No. 3 in the green space category and […]