Author: Angel Miller | Staff Reporter

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FAMU student diagnosed with breast cancer at 22

An architecture major, Jessica Florence was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. Photo Submitted by Jessica Florence.   “To appreciate sun, you gotta know what rain is.” – J. Cole Jessica Florence found out what rain was when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016 at age 22. […]

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Digging Digia Pasta

The Urban Food Market is a dining hall consisting of six unique Italian concepts. It has Iolo Pizza, a pizzeria that prides itself in making pizzas in an imported wooden oven; Fiocco Gelato Café, similar to the Italian style gelateria, so instead of selling solely gelato, it combines the gelato […]

Sports

Will more top high school athletes consider HBCUs?

More than 50 years ago, African American college football was just as competitive as any conference in the nation. Historically black colleges and universities routinely produced notable and Hall of Fame quality professional athletes due to the endless talent that graced these campuses because of segregation. The beginning of […]

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FSU students welcome removal of Eppes statue

Poof. Pow. Be gone. In the wee hours of July 19 Florida State University’s maintenance personnel removed the statue of Francis Eppes, one of the founders of the institution that would become FSU. The statue is said to be in the university’s possession, placed in a temporary storage until […]

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Simmons hosts event for top high school seniors

With the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University football team’s preseason practice just weeks away, the team’s practice field hasn’t been completely abandoned. Head coach Willie Simmons and FAMU’s Athletic Department held its inaugural Willie Simmons Elite Football Prospect Camp on Sunday. More than 200 high school football players […]