Sunday, April 28, 2024
Lil Nas X, best known for his 2019 viral song “Old Town Road” featuring country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, recently released a new song and video titled “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” His new video has sparked an outrage from people and many are denouncing their support of his […]
The phrase “you gotta be two something to do something” is taking social media by storm as many people have recently shown an outpouring of support for plus-size women. Being Plus-sized is so much more than what the media portrays a thick woman to be. Well-known celebrities such as K […]
The student experience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is like no other. And for La-Donia Jefferies, keeping the experience alive for the next generation of students was important. Jefferies is the author of “Homecoming,” an animated children’s book. Growing up, Jefferies was exposed to HBCUs starting from the age […]
Black History Month is a time when people of color pay homage to those who have paved the way before us. As the month of February comes to an end, it is important to recognize that Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. are not the only ones […]
The Leon County School board voted unanimously last week to consider adopting Florida’sGuardian program. The program is used to keep students safe while on school grounds. The program was initiated after the Feb. 14, 2018 school shooting in Parkland, where a former student used a semi-automatic rifle to kill 17 students […]
Paving the way for Black women in film, actress Cicely Tyson has left behind an unforgettable legacy in the Black community. Tyson died on Jan. 28 at the age of 96. She was born Dec. 19, 1924 in Harlem, New York to devoutly religious parents, William and Theodosia Tyson. Despite […]
It is always a great day when a Rattler returns to the “Hill,” and that’s happened last week when Florida A&M University appointed Marcy Muldrow Sanders, aFAMU alumna, to be the National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) program director. Sanders represents NSIN’s first position at a Historically Black College or University […]
Make no mistake: Hot Pockets are a staple, cheap meal for an on-the-go broke college student. But that may be changing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service recently issued a recall on Hot Pockets. A total of 762,615 pounds of Nestle’s frozen not ready-to-eat pepperoni Hot […]
While many Americans have faced hardships during the global pandemic that we are still experiencing. But there is a group of people who have it even harder — the homeless. The Kearney Center located on Tallahassee’s west side is a faith-based non-profit organization. It helps aid the homeless in the […]