Author: Delores Battle | Staff writer

Opinions

FSU students should take COVID-19 seriously

With COVID-19 ending all social gatherings larger than 10 people, Tallahassee students have had difficulty enjoying the full extent of the college experience. For FAMU, this meant the indefinite end of Set Friday, football season, Homecoming and all in-person club and organization events — to name a few. Extensive safety […]

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University offers more suicide prevention training

Silence onsuicides continues to grow louder each day on college campuses around the country. As it happens, September is Suicide Prevention Month, and FAMU decided to have asSuicide prevention training. Because of the pandemic, the suicide prevention training was available through Zoom for FAMU students, faculty and staff. The first […]

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YouTube to remove accessibility feature

YouTube is under fire after the company made the decision to suspend the community contributions feature, effective Sept. 28. Community contributions allow users to submit their own edits to video title/description translations, subtitles and closed captions. After being reviewed by either the creator of the video or the community, the […]

Lifestyles

COVID-19 causes global hair shortage

If you’ve had recent trouble finding a wig for your next install, blame the novel coronavirus. Back in March, China increased its restrictions on imports making receiving the hair extensions a hassle for many. Vendors took to the app AliExpress to purchase hair extensions, lace products and virtually anything to […]

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Black Archives to offer virtual tours

Virtual tours have become the hottest trend among museums all over the country as they cope with the effects of  COVID-19. The Meek-Eaton Black Archives Research Center and Museum is no different, and it hopes to join the bandwagon with its latest venture-online museum tours. For the last six months, […]