Friday, July 18, 2025
After just one month on the job, Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell has already made strides to start checking things off of his to-do list. Revell announced in January the creation of a Citizens Advisory Council. The purpose of the council is to enhance the relationship between the community and […]
Monday, the Black News Channel made its debut as the first 24-hour African American news network. BNC is the only television news network with news programming gathered, written, and produced “by black people for black people.” This notable trademark along with the collaboration of Black communities is what will […]
President Trump’s administration has been constantly changing things over the last several years, causing controversy and raising countless questions. The latest change comes in rolling back on school lunch regulations. Last month U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the proposal saying, “These improvements build on the 2018 reforms that […]
The 8th annual Tally Shorts Film Festival took place this past weekend. During the event, two Florida filmmakers showcased their works that shined a new light on the gun violence conversation. Director Adam Schlachter’s documentary “And The Brave Shall Rise” followed the campaign of Cindy Polo as she ran to […]
Two key positions for Florida A&M University’s 2020 elections were filled during Monday’s student senate meeting. Third-year economics student, Johnathon McCloud, was appointed to solicitor general for the student government association. McCloud plans to be a voice for the students at FAMU. “I do hope and plan to viably help […]
What started as an interest meeting of 50 students in the spring of 2019 led to a promising future for Florida A&M’s first fishing club. Robert ‘Bob’ Carroll Jr., the director of FAMU’s Campus Recreation Center vision finally came true. “Mr. Carroll wanted to start a fishing club for a […]
Dan Leshem, accompanied by a group of liberals and conservatives, visited the Good Samaritan United Methodist Church on Friday to discuss antisemitism. Leshem, a Jewish professor and native of Los Angeles, has worked at different universities in the United States while studying the Holocaust for more than 20 years. He […]
The Florida Department of Education responded to the private school voucher program controversy Friday, saying that the initial story about the issue was inaccurate. “The Orlando Sentinel story completely misrepresents a scholarship program that serves more than 100,000 students,100 percent of whom come from low-income families,” a DOE spokesman said […]
Dressed in pink and armed with signs reading, “Protect Safe, Legal, Abortion”, Planned Parenthood led the protest at Tallahassee’s Capitol, against lawmakers in support of bill SB 404 on Feb. 4. The vote for this bill was set to take place on Feb. 4 and abortions rights advocates demanded their […]
According to Merriam Webster, lookups for the pronoun “they” in 2019 increased by 313 percent over the previous year. Webster attributed this growth to the word’s use as a pronoun in the LGBTQ community for individuals of non-binary gender (don’t identify as either man or woman). For this reason, Webster […]