For the first time in 26 years, there has been success in an AIDS vaccine. Results from a team of researchers, which included Thai researchers, the U.S. Army and the National Institute of Health, were released in Bangkok, Thailand. According to researchers, the revamped vaccine cut the risk of becoming […]

Meningitis hits Tallahassee again. Everyone is still feeling the effects of the loss of Florida A&M University student Courtney Simms. Nearly two weeks later, another person has fallen victim to the disease. Lawson Mayfield was diagnosed with bacterial spinal meningitis on Monday. She was a recent graduate from Maclay School, […]

When facing confrontations about doing something wrong, our initial reactions usually include finding an excuse or justification. Typically, I don’t like to turn simple situations into ‘right-or-wrong’ scenarios, but I believe there should be a limit to the amount of effort one puts into finding and presenting these excuses.   Jordan […]

It was tough to sit in a courtroom on March 27 and listen to a jury decide the fate of former Florida A&M University student, Marcus Barrington. No, a kinship did not exist between us; we only had a few encounters. But that day, life was an object. A 12-member […]

Yesterday, I walked into Florida A&M’s Student Government offices with hopes of having a brief discussion with Student Body President Gallop Franklin. However, I was shut down and locked-out, literally. I knocked on his door and from his seat he yelled, “I’m busy doing ‘some work.’” He said he would […]

#8220;No, I am not a freshman,” was the phrase I said to a doe-eyed and overly eager first year student yesterday.It has been a week since freshmen and graduate campaigns have started and I am so happy that they are over.Everywhere I went I was bombarded by zealous freshmen and […]

Florida A&M University finally made front-page news for something other than administrative and financial woes. But this time, the coverage wasn’t any better. In my 20 years of living in Tallahassee, I’ve seen FAMU on the front page between 40 to 50 times, give or take. Out of those 40 […]

I completely understand that words have power.  The “N” word and other racial slurs are some of the most hurtful words in existence.  But these words are hurtful because of the historical and downright mean intent behind them. The words hurt because they were specifically designed to hurt us. Compare […]

42.4 percent. According to Golden Brooks’ character, Suzette, from “Something New,” 42.4 percent of educated black women will not be married. That statement alone gives me crow’s feet. I try to keep that very large and depressing percentage in context whenever I feel I may be slipping into my “high-maintenance” […]

With the G20 summit scheduled to start next week in Pittsburgh, President Barack Obama in his weekly radio address Saturday, focused on the need for a consumer protection agency and continued his push for more Wall Street reforms. “We cannot allow the thirst for reckless schemes that produce quick profits […]