Florida A&M University announced last month that it had received $1 million in funding from Bank of America. According to a press release issued by FAMU on Nov. 19, the million-dollar initiative will be helping students of color successfully complete the education and training necessary to enter the workforce and embark […]
Author: Nikyya Smith | Staff writer
Sleep and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has shuffled and changed many aspects of life that we once considered simple. It has totally flipped our normal day to day lives including when and how long we sleep. Dr. Amara Emenike, medical director of the Tallahassee Memorial Sleep Center, spoke with The Famuan about how […]
Most of city’s south side a food desert
According to the United States Department of Agriculture, about 23.5 million people live in food deserts and approximately 2.3 million people live in low-income, rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a supermarket. Food deserts are areas where people have limited access to a variety of healthy and […]
Review: Coosh’s Bayou Rouge brings Cajun flavor to College Town
Located in the heart of College Town between Madison Social and Centrale on Madison Street sits Coosh’s Bayou Rouge. It is a restaurant that strives to bring bayou classics and Cajun flavors to Tallahassee. While this location opened in 2017, known locally as Coosh’s, they have been serving up south […]
Three Rattlers hope their product will revolutionize basketball
Jason Campbell, Alvin Kennedy and Jeremy Henderson met each other back in fall 2001 at Florida A&M University. What started off as friends getting together for weekly basketball games would turn them into business partners and founders of a company called JSleeve. Their company has created and designed a wearable […]
Dillard, FAMU captain, wins tournament
Mulbe Dillard IV has got game. The Chicago native and Florida A&M University golf teamcaptainearlier this month won first place at the Championship Flight, Golfweek amateur tournament at TPC Deere Run in Silvis, Illinois. “The course was set up extremely tough. The conditions that we had for the first day […]
Architecture student determined to beat ‘terminal’ breast cancer
Jessica Florence considers herself a creative and artistic person. She says that’s the reason why she changed her major from industrial engineering to architecture. Florence, a native of Jacksonville, is now a fourth-year architecture student at Florida A&M University. She is also a breast cancer advocate and battling the cancer […]
Despite challenges, FAMU athletics presents balanced budget
Florida A&M University’s Athletic Department delivered a balanced budget to the Board of Governors on Sept. 16, earning praise from the body that oversees the state’s 12 public universities. AT that meeting held at the University of South Florida, FAMU Board of Trustees Chair Kelvin Lawson talked to the BOG […]
FAMU receives $10 million to upgrade Bragg
Florida A&M University last week received $10 million in funding for renovations and upgrades to Bragg Memorial Stadium. Bragg was first constructed in 1957 and since then has been home to the FAMU’ football team. The stadium was last renovated in 1982, nearly four decades ago. According to a press […]
Many jobs have been affected by COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a major impact on our nation in many different ways, but none more so than economically. It has left people nationwide without jobs or a source of income during this pandemic. When the first COVID-19 case was detected in January, the nation’s unemployment rate was 3.6%. Since […]