On Feb. 24, both Tallahassee locations of the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) will be giving away free pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m in honor of National Pancake Day. Each customer is eligible for a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes. In exchange, patrons are urged to make […]

On Feb. 13, Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to save and create jobs, get the economy moving again, and transform it for long-term growth and stability. The economic crisis combined with rising tuition prices and declining state support for higher education, threatens to put college out of […]

Standard formula for an action movie is simple. You take the American everyman, throw in a blatantly obvious love interest, make sure there’s no relevant back story, add in some easily killed bad guys and a mastermind with a convoluted plan to take over the world and start blowing things […]

Born as:Sidney PoitierFebruary 20, 1927Miami, Florida Noted for:“Days of Our Youth,” “Lysistrata,” “No Way Out,” ” The Defiant Ones,” ” Lilies of the Field,” The Measure of a Man. Some honors: Academy Awards nominee, Grammy winner, Oscar winner Where it started: Sidney Poitier was born into a Bahamian family and  […]

The Florida A&M softball team will load up the bus for Tampa this weekend to compete in a three-day Invitational at the University of South Florida. The ladies enter this weekends contest with a (3-4) overall record. Their schedule has not placed them against another conference team just yet.  On […]

Florida A&M University’s recreation center is one of the most popular places for students to visit, relax and have fun on campus. Since the recreation center opened in the summer of 2006, many students make an effort to enjoy a good work out on a weekly basis. Most students do […]

The aroma of the store is set off by warm jasmine, exotic teas and ancient wood. The arrangement of the blue colors from the Far East to the warm brown colors of the Sub-Saharan Africa, flow harmoniously from one end of the store to the other. Customers can hear the […]

As my last campaign season begins, I am feeling a bit nostalgic. I will miss the free t-shirts; the uniform for the week is a t-shirt, jeans, matching buttons and flyer necklaces. I will miss the nice-nasty tactics among campaign teams like ripping posters down then letting the candidate know […]

There’s a new fashion fad captivating people across the nation. It’s not made of fancy material or decorated with elaborate designs, it’s a simple t-shirt that reads in bold letters “Without Jesus I Suck.” The slogan’s creator, 25-year-old Maurice Hicks from Jacksonville, decided to put the message on a shirt […]

Born as  Chloe Anthony WoffordFeb.18, 1931Lorain, Ohio. Noted for: Novels: The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Soloman, Tar BabyMost famous work: BelovedSome honors: Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize in fiction for BelovedFun fact: Because many people couldn’t pronounce her first name correctly, she changed it to Toni, short for […]