The annual Harambee festival that is expected to attract 10,000 people this year. The word Harambee is Swahili for “pulling or working together”.  Photo Courtesy of the FAMU Office of Communications. What started as an idea created by three Florida A&M University women in the early 1980’s transformed into an […]

Karl Lagerfeld led a revival at Chanel. Photo Courtesy of Google Images. Karl Lagerfeld, one of the most powerful and recognizable fashion designers of the 20th and 21st centuries, died Tuesday morning in Paris at the age of 85. The prolific German designer is best known for his work as […]

Charlene Balewa has been directing the Harambee Festival for the past three years. Photo Submitted by Charlene Balewa. Charlene Balewa is a marketing specialist. Responsible for managing all the chaos behind the scenes at Saturday’s annual Harambee Festival, she is a former marketing manager at FAMU. You could say it’s […]

Figures from the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum on display in Apalachicola. Photo Submited by Morgan Martin. APALACHICOLA  — This iconic Gulf Coast town’s History Culture and Art Center featured the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum for Black History Month. The U.S. Census shows that the black population in […]

Common Core Logo. Photo Courtesy of Google. It appears that local parents are not going to miss having their children learn under the Common Core, if Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is successful at removing it from the state’s  public schools. DeSantis, Florida's new governor, announced last month that one of […]

Panelists discuss the hardships of interracial marriage and adoption. Photo Submitted by Bleu Bell. An intimate group of about 40 gathered at The Junction on Monroe to discuss interracial marriage, adoption and retaining cultural differences. The Village Square, a non-partisan public educational forum hosted a panel Thursday featuring five individuals […]

The community garden, Smarter by Nature, grows foods for profitable resale, as well as members of the Tallahassee area who may lack immediate access to food. Photo Submitted by Joshua Bonsell. The natural effort to sustain life on Earth has been taken for granted and the human use of earth’s […]

Small farms in Florida and across the nation need help that FAMU hopes to provide. Photo Courtesy of FAMU Forward.   Florida A&M’s School of the Environment and College of Agriculture and Food Sciences have teamed up to bring the community back to back seminars centered on local small farming. The […]

FSU''s Black Student Unions hosted an annual "Motown Get Down" lip-synch contest on Wednesday. Photo Submitted by Catisha Joseph. The sounds of laughter, excitement and sing-a-longs filled Moore Auditorium at Florida State University Wednesday evening. Students and members of the participating organizations gathered to witness the Black Student Union’s annual […]

FAMU students engaging with various program representatives at the annual study abroad fair hosted by the Office of International Education and Development. Photo Submitted by Kayla Lawson. The annual study abroad fair hosted by the Office of International Education was held Thursday, Feb. 7, and featured representatives from various companies […]