Author: Lyneisha Lewis | Staff writer

News

Tatum urges students to get flu shots

The influenza virus – commonly called the flu — is discovered all year round in the United States. Flu activity often peaks between December and February, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Flu activity usually begins to rise around October. Now that homecoming is over, cases are […]

Sports

Moussa’s 3 TD passes lead FAMU

Quarterback Jeremy Moussa led the Florida A&M football team to its seventh straight victory Saturday as the Rattlers beat Southern University in a dominant performance with a final score of 30-16. FAMU has beaten Southern three consecutive times. FAMU now has a record of 7-2 after losing its first two […]

Sports

FAMU track head coach down to three finalists

This week FAMU conducted a series of meetings with the three finalists competing for the position of head coach of the track and field team.  Each candidate went through three meetings: one with the student-athletes, the second with Vincent Williams, Director of Sports Medicine, and lastly, with Carrie Hickey Tollison, […]

Sports

Rattlers win seventh straight

Florida A&M’s football team closed out its last home game of the season Saturday with a triumphant 30-16 win in a fierce battle with Southern University. FAMU, 7-2, has won seven straight after starting the season with back-to-back losses. “We played well enough to win,” FAMU coach Willie Simmons said […]

Lifestyles

Omarion visits ‘the hill’

Omarion, best known for being in the R&B boy band B2K, stopped by Florida A&M University Thursday as part of his HBCU book tour. His new book, “Unbothered: The Power of Choosing Joy,” dives deep into Omarion’s spiritual journey and how he managed to be centered even through public setbacks […]

News

Students fear resurgence of COVID

A week after Florida A&M’s homecoming, students fear a possible spike in COVID’s numbers. With students and alumni flooding to “the hill” to celebrate the university and seasonal sickness on the rise, many anticipate a COVID-19 surge. Since March of 2020, COVID-19 has impacted the Tallahassee community. According to the […]

Lifestyles

The impact of Black women in real estate

The increase of Black women in the real estate industry is currently at an all-time high. Many brokers in real estate have been broadcasted on channels such as HGTV, an American television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. One of the first all-Black women’s real estate series is called “Selling […]