Sunday, June 29, 2025
Yesenia Ozuna (Angel) and Christopher Beckford (Leland) rehearsing for "Blues for an Alabama Sky" The Florida A&M University Essential Theatre will be debuting two shows for the fall season in the Charles Winter Wood Theatre. The Essential Theatre will open its curtains with “Blues for an Alabama Sky” on Oct. […]
Oscar Pistorius, the infamous double-amputee and 2012 London Olympic runner, who shot and killed his girlfriend in 2013, was released from prison and placed under house arrest Monday night. “Oscar Pistorius was placed under correctional supervision tonight,” Manelisi Wolela, a spokeswoman for South Africa’s correctional services department, said. The Olympic […]
Over the past few weeks there has been an uproar on social media about a comment actress Raven-Symone made on “The View.” There was a discussion amongst the women about a viral video that listed the “60 most ghetto names.” In the discussion Raven expressed that as a black woman […]
McGraw-Hill Education, one of the largest textbook publishers in the United States, is being criticized this week for referring to slaves brought to America during the Atlantic Slave Trade as “workers” in its 2016 edition of “World Geography.” Roni Dean-Burren, a 38-year-old mother from Pearland, Texas posted a screenshot of […]
A 6-year-old boy fatally shot his toddler brother while playing ‘cops and robbers’ in Chicago, Ill., Monday. The gun belongs to the children’s father, Michael Santiago, who was a former member of a gang and was in fear for his life. Joseph DiBella, the prosecutor, told a Cook County courtroom […]
Senate democratic leader Arthenia Joyner was successful in removing the Confederate flag from the seal that marks the Florida Senate. The seal is located in the Senate chambers of the Florida Capitol and replicas appear throughout the Capitol. The seal is also included on Senate stationery. Joyner asked the senate […]
James S. Rickards High School’s athletic department is hosting its first Coat Drive in partnership with PMathis & Associates, LLC. The purpose is to supply coats to elementary students as the colder months approach. Earl Hankerson, the athletic director at Rickards High School, says that Rickards High School and […]
Representative Gwen Graham, D-Fla., sponsored a bill called the Quality Care for Moms and Babies Act. The bill would build on the successful and bipartisan Pediatric Quality Measures Program, providing a much-needed focus on maternity care quality and health outcomes for mothers and infants. Graham, announced the Quality Care for […]
Florida A&M University’s National Society of Collegiate Scholars will be inducting new members Thursday, October 22 in the Perry-Paige from 7 p.m. -10 p.m. The National Society of Collegiate Scholars (NSCS) invites everyone to attend the new member induction ceremony for this fall. NSCS is an honors organization that recognizes […]
Today marks nearly twenty years since hip-hop artist, Troy Donald Jamerson, better known by his stage name Pharoahe Monch, released his solo album, “Internal Affairs”. The album was released Oct. 19, 1999 and peaked at No. 6 on Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Album charts. ‘Simon Says’ was one of the most […]