Joshua Crutchfield, a 23-year-old senior at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, has faced more than his share of adversity throughout his life. However, he has prevailed and is still here to tell his story. Summer B of 2016, Crutchfield arrived on the “Highest of Seven Hills,” leaving his family behind […]
Author: Mackenzie Green | Staff writer
Spells named student employee of the year
Florida A&M University’s Career and Professional Development Center announced last week that Jordan Spells is FAMU’s student employee of the year. Spells wasted no time getting involved in the College of Education. He has been volunteering and working in the College of Education for two years, starting in the dean’s […]
With three albums, Dornes just getting started
Music is something present in the lives of just about everybody. Its versatility allows it to be an outlet for some, a career for others, but a passion to millions. Ranard Dornes is a student-artist at Florida A&M who views music as all that and more. Growing up in Jacksonville, […]
How is FAMU football faring during COVID-19?
COVID-19, better known as the coronavirus, has affected everyone and everything during this pandemic, including FAMU football. Due to the coronavirus, the spring season and recruitment for FAMU football has come to a halt — as it has at every college program in the country. Jared Brown, a Florida A&M […]
FAMU donates ventilators to TMH
“Excellence with caring” is FAMU’s motto. During a global pandemic, the Florida A&M School of Allied Health & Health Sciences lent a helping hand with donations of four ventilators to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, earlier this week. In a statement released by FAMU communications, Dean Cynthia Hughes Harris said she was […]
Candidates reflect on online elections
Election season is always highly anticipated at Florida A&M University. However, this year campaigning was a little bit different. Due to COVID-19 students were forced to do all of their campaigning online. Campaigning virtually means using social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter to get people to vote for […]
Bryant proves that hard work pays off
Calvin “40” Bryant is an example of how hark work can pay off. He went from a low point in life, where he suffered depression, and he turned that anger into a business. Bryant was an athlete where he played football on a collegiate level at Charleston Southern University. In […]
Protests against stay-at-home orders become political
This past week I haven’t been able to decipher what is more alarming: the coronavirus pandemic or the eruption of people rallying against social distancing restrictions that have been put in place for the safety of the world. As of April 21, the total of coronavirus cases in the U.S […]
Social media usage surges during the pandemic
If you’ve been spending your time switching from app to app on your phone during COVID-19, you’re not alone. Social media has become today’s primary source of news information and entertainment, and with the outbreak of the coronavirus citizens everywhere have been glued to their phones. The lockdown around the […]
Songs to sing while washing your hands: HBCU edition
COVID-19 has infected more than 2.3 million people around the world as of Sunday. The virus has now killed more than 40,000 people in the U.S., nearly a quarter of all deaths from COVID-19 across the globe, according to Johns Hopkins University. As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, health […]