Three schools in five years. What a journey. I graduated from Jones High School in Orlando in 2015. I went to Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa, to play football. I spent two semester there and met different people from all around the world. It was a great experience for me […]

School is back in session and cases of COVID-19 are ripping through the Tallahassee community. It has been a month since colleges and universities in Tallahassee opened its doors with some students having on-campus classes while others engaged in online virtual learning and yet the cases have risen. As extracurricular […]

For many students, 2020 has been completely different from the previous years we’ve experienced. If you’re a senior in college, the COVID-19 pandemic might have ruined what was supposed to be the best year of your college experience. General public health limitations brought by the pandemic has led to the […]

When the news initially broke in mid-March that former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum had engaged in scandalous activity with drug paraphernalia, a male escort and had been photographed in the nude in a Miami Beach hotel, many Gillum supporters were shocked. It is hard to believe that someone who was […]

With COVID-19 ending all social gatherings larger than 10 people, Tallahassee students have had difficulty enjoying the full extent of the college experience. For FAMU, this meant the indefinite end of Set Friday, football season, Homecoming and all in-person club and organization events — to name a few. Extensive safety […]

A new law in Florida has finally been enacted to help target racially offensive covenants found in real estate documents. The Tallahassee-based initiative that started more than a year ago was officially made into a law when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the legislation on Sept. 4. The criminal defense […]

In the past two weeks, the number of positive COVID-19 cases in Leon County has  been increasing. The aforementioned two weeks included Labor Day and Florida State University’s first home football game. On Labor Day weekend, images and a video went viral over the internet of local college-aged residents in […]

For years Black people have navigated the world with the notion that because we have melanin, we do not need sunscreen, when in fact our skin is just as susceptible to sun damage as others are. The idea that our skin can sustain itself under harsh ultraviolet waves have persisted […]

Reeling from the recent fervor geared towards the Democratic ticket, which boastfully touts the first-ever HBCU and Black female VP candidate, President Donald Trump has amped up his re-election campaign through a spate of misinformation dissemination. In a tweet via his Twitter account that holds a ghastly record of disinformation, […]

Couple Paul Chelmis and Jing Wen, creators and founders of the nonprofit group called Shan Shui and “Wear Their Names” jewelry line have placed themselves into capitalism turmoil. After launching their jewelry line based from the ruins of shattered glass from a Charleston, S.C. Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest and […]