Sunday, July 6, 2025
Florida A&M University’s Developmental Research School kicked off their 2019 Homecoming week with the crowning of Kelsey J. Morris and Warren D. Bowers as their Mister and Miss FAMU DRS at the 66th coronation in Lee Hall Auditorium on Oct. 26. Roger Walker, coronation director and royal court advisor introduced […]
Carlos Becker, a defensive back for Florida State, is best known for his interception that sealed the 2016 Orange Bowl win for the Seminoles. For his first two years of college Becker was also a track star, earning multiple Atlantic Coast Conference honors. Around campus he is known as the […]
Florida A&M football standout Calvin Ashley accomplished his greatest achievement on March 11, and it had nothing to do with football. On that day his son, Calvin Ashley, Jr. was born at 10:21 a.m. at Winnie Palmer in Orlando. Ashley wanted to tell everyone, facetiming his friends with an abundance […]
Sophomore student senator Maurice Gilbert is creating a student referendum to get free laundry services at Florida A&M University. The idea came to Gilbert over the summer as he conducted research about mental and emotional health and how they correlated to “simple needs.” He discovered that the pleasure that humans […]
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a collaborative between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and to ensure that all Americans have the resources they need to be safer and more secure online. Earlier this year, almost half a million dollars were transferred out of […]
The Florida A&M University Student Government Association will host an educational forum on the medical and unlawful use of marijuana Tuesday, featuring a panel of eight speakers. Held in partnership with the FAMU Medical Marijuana Education and Research Initiative, the on-campus event is free and open to the public from […]
The Tallahassee City Commission chambers were filled with citizens and staff for the City Commission Ethics Workshop Monday morning. With more than an hour of speakers, the meeting was primarily a show of support for Tallahassee City Manager Reese Goad. This comes after last week’s release of City Commissioner Jeremy […]
Melissa Mitchell discovered painting in 2014, several years after graduating from Florida A&M. Mitchell, the founder of Atlanta-based Abeillecreations, now makes a living as an artist. “All the skills I learned from FAMU prepared me for that moment from networking to learning how to build a website and being in […]
Almost a year ago I graduated from Palm Beach State College and had my mind set on attending University of Central Florida. I visited the school and met a few faculty members. I have family in Orlando. My mind was made up until a last-minute phone call that changed my […]
Samuel Olusegun Williams talked about the struggle for Kijuchagulia in the African diaspora during a Saturday presentation at the Foster-Tanner building. Williams hosted an enlightening hour of storytelling, songs and poems of self-determination of people of the African diaspora. The second principle in Kwanzaa is Kijchagulia , in Swahili. It […]