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Weave: If You Paid for It, It’s Yours

It is seen on women of all ages. Different forms, styles and colors are readily available to customers. Beyoncé, athletes and even women at Florida A&M use it. Not to mention, have become a staple in the black community. What am I talking about? Hair weaves of course.  All women want […]

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Weave: If You Paid for It, It’s Yours

It is seen on women of all ages. Different forms, styles and colors are readily available to customers. Beyoncé, athletes and even women at Florida A&M use it. Not to mention, have become a staple in the black community. What am I talking about? Hair weaves of course.  All women want […]

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Oops, Where’s My Netcheck?

For about 36 hours, I was banking. Then that alternate reality only existent at FAMU kicked in. I received a phone call from my parents inquiring about a strange piece of mail with a FAMU letterhead. “Go ahead and open it,” I said, curious about what the letter could be […]

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No, I don’t ‘Talk White’

When I was younger, people used to tell me that I sounded white. Every time I heard someone say it I would roll my neck as I responded, “No I’m not, I’m speaking English.” Even as a child I knew that there was something wrong with that statement. Now that […]

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‘P-I-N-K’ is for Breasts in October

Fall is almost here, and everywhere you look, you see red, orange, brown, gray, black and pink. Or at least you should see pink. Why pink? Because pink is the color for breast cancer awareness and October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Believe it or not, some people don’t know […]

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Persephone’s Perspective: Don’t Let Monogamy Breed Monotony

Being in a monogamous relationship for an extensive amount of time can become quite boring. Especially when it seems that there is never time to spend with one another and you are continuously doing the same activities over and over. I know this from my personal experience. Juggling school and […]

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Senioritis: Nasty, Put Some Clothes On!

Last week, Trustee Torey Alston proposed that a dress-code-of-sorts be put in place for students at Florida A&M. In my four years at FAMU, I have seen outfits on my classmates that made me feel either insulted or embarrassed. Dress codes already exist in certain schools, colleges and divisions within […]

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Fallen Legends Leave Lessons

The deaths of Steve Jobs and the Rev. Fred L. Shutttlesworth last week gave us two reasons to pause and reflect. These men, their lives and work remind us of all that is good and noble about this country. Although Jobs is more relevant to our generation and Shuttlesworth means […]

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College is the Right Time for Innovation

#8220;If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you’d have invented Facebook…”, this is the famous quote used in the eight-time Oscar nominated movie, The Social Network. The movie might be an overdramatized view of how Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, created a billion dollar success, but it’s a fact […]

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Life Sentence Too Harsh for Twelve-Year-Old

Crazy is the prosecutor trying a 12-year-old boy as an adult for the murder of his sibling. Cristian Fernandez, a resident of Jacksonville, hit his two-year-old brother so hard that he died. Of course, no child should resort to violence no matter the situation. But did a crime really occur? […]