The place I call home is Palmetto South. I get my own room and I share a bathroom with only one other person. I have a stove, living room and ultimately my own space. I don’t have to worry about rent, overages, or breaking a lease. My rent is $5,240 […]

The experience of living on campus as a freshman is similar to the experience of an average childhood because it provides important development, but would probably not want to be fully relived by anyone. Surprisingly, the reasons why one would not want to relive either experience are also similar: there […]

Spring Break is next week. It seems like we just started the spring semester. Although we have this break to relax and have school off of our mind, we have to remember to be safe. The face of any Florida A&M student should not be on the news. I love […]

I”ve wanted to write this piece for a long time. It’s probably an exhausted topic, but things like this make me really appreciate the true art of journalism. I can talk about things that upset me and issues that aggravate me to the point that the only way I can […]

Just weeks after the popular search engine joined Wikipedia and Facebook in a protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, Google has announced its new privacy policies that have stirred international leaders. The French Commission Nationale de L’informatique et des Libertés (National Commission of Computing and Civil Liberties), CNIL, wrote […]

With the death of two legends from the music industry during Black History Month, it came natural for me to briefly talk about some other music greats who died. In the past nine years death has claimed the lives of many unique voices from the music industry. There are […]

Since the beginning of the semester, I rode the bus in silence and walked around campus unnoticed. This week, it seems everyone has been miraculously stricken by the social butterfly. You see, it is election time. This is the time students who have considered running for a well-known position on […]

I was under the impression that America had grown up a little bit. If you read the posts that came flooding in last week on a Florida State blog site, fsuacb.com, taking direct aim at Florida A&M, and consequently, African-Americans as a whole, I’m sure your blood was boiling. I […]

So, who knew that Florida A&M had a Cinema Club once upon a time? Crickets? Yeah, I thought so. FAMU grad Greg Anderson taught more than 20 interested young film hopefuls how to write and sell screenplays. Oh, and Greg Anderson also wrote “Stomp the Yard” and formed “Tri-Destined Films” […]

Love hasn’t changed, but the way modern society views love has. The positive image of black love that has been portrayed by Hollywood has morphed into a misleading message of self-fulfillment. Black love in Hollywood has lost its substance. It no longer appears as a partnership or long-lasting friendship. It’s […]