FAMU Village residents entering the shuttle for Family Worship and Praise Center's Sunday service. Photo by: Kayla Lawson   While many college students find solace and safety in attending their places of worship, there is a disparity between how much they worship when they are away at college and when […]

Movie poster for Get Out. Photo credit: Youtube While black America was gushing over Jordan Peele’s 2017 hit movie “Get Out” and its message about systematic racism and social consciousness, Hollywood had other thoughts. The cultural phenomenon is competing as a comedy, rather than a drama, at the 2018 Golden […]

Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Kevin Spacey, George H.W. Bush and so many more are men who have been accused of sexual assault. What do these men have in common? They are all considered to hold great wealth and power. Wealthy people can finesse the system by using great sums […]

Gunman Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and injured 546 in Las Vegas after the Route 91 Music Festival and contained over 20 firearms in his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Oct. 1, according to CBS News. Nearly six weeks later, 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley […]

The idea of cultural appropriation has been around for as long as we know, but in today’s society there is no excuse for not educating yourself to avoid appropriating a culture. So yes, it’s gone too far.   Cultural appropriation is the use of elements of one culture by members […]

Ebonics is a form of slang and a dialect of the English language that is also referred to as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) according to PBS.org. Ellen Fleurival | Photo credit: Ellen Fleurival  With the use of slang sometimes comes stereotypes, especially concerning black people. Code-switching is the practice […]

Patient being vaccinated. Photo credit: ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2010/Gudejko Roughly between October and May, flu season is prominent in the United States – meaning vaccinations will be often talked about and encouraged. However, for African Americans, it can be an unsettling topic. African Americans often delay acceptance or refuse vaccine services […]

Muhammad Ali There are many similarities between legendary Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali’s conscientious objection to be drafted to the U.S. military during the Vietnam War and NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protests. The first major similarity between both men is that they both took a stand against injustices involving […]

Football player Colin Kaepernick and Terence Crutcher kneel during protest. This football season Kaepernick was not picked up by an NFL team.   Welcome to the 2017 NFL season, where the conversation is not on who is going to win the Super Bowl but on which players are kneeling, sitting, […]

Photo credit: IMDb   It only takes one upload on YouTube to birth a star, and on February 3, 2011, Issa Rae’s, better known as “Awkward Black Girl” and star of the hit show “Insecure,” success was born. With her first episode, “Awkward Black Girl: The Stop Sign,” Rae introduced […]