The COVID-19 cases have gone up around the whole country and it is hitting record breaking numbers. With 10.1 million cases across the nation, people still don’t seem to care with flu season approaching as well. I think people are becoming desensitized to the virus because things haven’t gone back […]
Author: Andy Jean-Baptiste | Staff writer
Yelp’s new feature to make dining in safer
Eating in Tallahassee is becoming easier for people of color and harder for businesses that have been mentioned with racist and discriminatory reviews on Yelp’s newest feature. Yelp, a local search review and social networking site, will now mark restaurants with a “business accused of racist behavior” alert. All alerts […]
Student Senate approves fall elections
Florida A&M University’s Student Senate held their second session meeting Monday evening on Zoom as they discussed committee updates, student government updates and elections for the fall semester. Senators will be creating virtual office hours as they adapt to the new remote learning system that has taken place — hours […]
Ethridge brings LexedUp to FAMU’s campus
LexedUp is a makeup and eyelash business started by a FAMU student eager to put extra cash in her pocket while helping others. Alexis Ethridge, a senior psychology student from Jacksonville, started the makeup business in June 2017; the eyelashes came later. Ethridge has always had a passion for makeup […]
Teach for America aims to make a difference
The Teach for America team at FAMU held an event, “The history of educational inequality,” Tuesday in the Student Senate chambers. One of the inequalities in our educational systems is a drop-out rate of 1.3 million students leaving high school early every year. Half of those students are black and […]
Engineering students prepare for life after school
The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering hosted a panel discussion on Thursday titled Career Journeys in STEM. This panel used graduates from the engineering school to speak with current students about how they matriculated and where they are now. The graduates also gave advice about how students should pursue the goals […]
Geames oversees Greek life at FAMU
After being a student at Florida A&M University, Chazmen L. Geames has returned to his alma mater to serve and be an asset to further develop the FAMU. Geames, better known as Mr. G, now serves as the coordinator of Fraternity and Sorority Life within the Division of Student Affairs. […]
African art takes center stage in gallery
Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University’s visual arts program, Fine Arts Collection, unveiled its second art exhibition of the semester, “Perceptions: Encounters with African Art.” The exhibition examines some of the ways Western cultures have and continue to interpret African art and culture in a variety of ways as an example […]
Committee begins search for new CFO
The search committee for the permanent Vice President of Finance and Administration/Chief Financial Officer held its second meeting on Tuesday. Provost Maurice Edington, chairman of the committee, led the meeting. Members are charged with finding a replacement for Wanda Ford, who resigned abruptly in June. The committee is comprised of […]
Panel focuses on sexual assault
The Florida A&M University Police Department, Student Health Services, Office of Title IX, and the Gamma Alpha Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta sorority partnered on Wednesday to host a panel “Preventing and Responding to Interpersonal Violence.” The panel discussion involved sexual assault, domestic violence and substance abuse. Lt. Audrey Alexander […]