Friday, July 18, 2025
Florida A&M University Housing hosted its 27th Annual Homecoming Housing Step Show. The step show took place at the Al Lawson Center on Monday at 7 p.m. This event is made up of residents who do not have any collegiate stepping experience. The hosts, Kimani Jackson, Morgan Pinnock, MyQueal Lewis, […]
Wendyvette Edwards, a senior at Florida State University, hails from Pahokee, a small urban town in Palm Beach County mainly populated by African Americans. Edwards yearns to be an educator so she can help the next generation of young adults rise to the occasion. Edwards believes breaking the generational curse […]
Rattlers, both past and present, painted with a twist as they celebrated Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University’s annual homecoming and 132nd birthday. From 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Monday students showed off their inner Picasso through painting rattler styled cupcakes. They incorporated their own unique decorations while the instructor […]
Florida A&M is getting ready to launch a new program called FAMU Student Legal Services. It will be dedicated to providing no-cost legal services to students. The main purpose of FAMU Student Legal Services is to provide free legal advice and enhance public awareness by providing legal publications and programs […]
Rattler Nation has become Florida A&M University’s most trusted non-affiliated source with both eyes in the sky and ears to the ground. It maintains a very informative and detailed blog under the same name accompanied by the tagline “Ground Zero for Info on All Things FAMU,” in addition to […]
If you’ve recently caught a flight or visited your local Department of Motor Vehicles, you’re ahead of the game. Transportation Security Administration and DMV’s have begun posting warning flyers about the new change in State Identification cards now referred to as “Real ID’s” The change comes after what is called […]
While trying to remove a tree, a crane supplied by About Building & Design, Inc. crashed into a mobile home on the 2900 block of Slash Pine Lane on Sept. 16. According to the company, the ground gave way during the removal, causing the crane to crash into the mobile […]
Former Florida A&M University President James Ammons returned to his alma mater Saturday to bear witness to FAMU’s long-standing rivalry against Southern University. Ammons serves as the executive vice president/executive vice chancellor of Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., but he admits that FAMU will always be his and […]
Hailing from Chicago, Bomani H. Spell is Florida A&M University’s new associate vice president and dean of students. Before his relocation to FAMU, Spell worked at several institutions including Jarvis Christian College, Westminster College and Tuskegee University. Spell has been at FAMU for only a month and says he finds […]
Florida A&M University’s Office Of International Education and Development is set to premiere its latest project, “Curating Culture.” The web-based show, which is sponsored by the OIED, will focus on global issues and the effects they have on various cultures. Examples of these issues include, but are not limited to, […]