Sunday, April 28, 2024
Florida A&M University Athletics is partnering with Twitter to create a Twitter community. FAMU is the first HBCU to get this partnership. According to Twitter, these communities were created to “give people a dedicated place to connect, share, and get closer to the discussions they care about most.” Admins and […]
Roe v. Wade provided hope to women around the country and provided a step forward bodily autonomy. However, in the last decade, legislation with the goal of dismantling what that case gave to women has become more frequent and more crippling. Now women are faced with an impossible problem: What […]
Florida A&M University athletics is now charging a $5 admission fee for all home baseball and softball games. The change was announced in February and explained in am email to the FAMU community that the fee is only for non-FAMU students. Since the announcement, there have been mixed views on […]
Commonly referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, House Bill 1557 cleared a Senate Appropriations Committee meeting on Monday with a 12-8 party-line vote. The bill has provoked controversial discussions among both political parties as people around the nation continue to debate what capacity teachers serve. Outside of the […]
Florida Senate Bill 1500 has been celebrated by some as a promising step towards education and respect towards Black Americans as “Emancipation Day” is being considered. After centuries of no acknowledgement, the day is finally receiving the attention it deserves. However, how genuine is this “respect” and what does this […]
At 21-years-old, I thought I would have experienced love by now. Relationships and love have always intrigued me. Every time one of my family members introduced their new partner, or one of my friends would tell me they’re dating someone, I would be fascinated. What did that feel like? What […]
Florida A&M University honored MaKayla “MK” Bryant on Saturday in the Lee Hall Auditorium, which was filled with students, faculty and staff who gathered to remember the life of Bryant. The silence echoed in the auditorium as attendees settled in. Her family sat in the front row and her mother […]
The U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Marcia Fudge, held a press briefing via Zoom Wednesday with student journalists attending HBCUs. There was one representative each from more than 30 schools on the briefing, and each student prepared one question related to HUD and its plans for 2022. […]