Cecil-Raw‘s cousin was a victim of bullying at 9 years old. He combated it by ending his life. His father found his dead body hanging from inside his bedroom closet. “At the age of 9 you shouldn’t even be thinking about bullying and thinking about taking your own life,” Cecil […]

In the midst of the holiday season, Florida A&M’s Essential Theatre will present “Black Nativity” on Wednesday through Sunday at Charles Winter Wood Theatre. The celebrated gospel play by Langston Hughes has created buzz in theaters this Thanksgiving season. With the release of the new movie, “Black Nativity,” the Essential […]

Mahogany Dance Theater is putting on its final fall concert featuring the Strikers in Gaither Gymnasium on Saturday at 7 p.m. Shepiro Hardemon, founder and artistic director of Mahogany Dance Theater and the Strikers, described the upcoming concert, “Dancing on the Shoulders of Giants,” as a diverse show that will […]

Theatre Tallahassee will present a production of “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” on Friday.    The production, which is based on the novel by Ilene Beckerman, was written by Nora and Delia Ephron and will feature six women performing several roles.    Melissa Findley, a director of the production […]

College has new experiences students look forward to, including the excitement of living on one’s own and meeting roommates. Brendan Lesser, senior customer specialist at Villa Del Lago Apartments on Pensacola Street, said it is important to maintain a good relationship with roommates. Lesser said it is important to be […]

More than a decade later, college friends are reunited for “The Best Man Holiday.” Malcolm Lee, who wrote and directed the ’90s film, “The Best Man,” is back with the sequel, “The Best Man Holiday.”  The cast, which includes Morris Chestnut, Monica Calhoun, Terrence Howard, Taye Diggs, Sanaa Lathan, Nia […]

  Yeisha Arcia led the volleyball team to an undefeated record in Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference play. Arcia, an outside hitter and second-year biology student from San Juan, Puerto Rico, anchored the team to a 12-game winning streak following a season-ending victory over Bethune-Cookman University. Arcia said she was “surprised and […]

The Black Archives debuted an exhibit Friday. “Distant Places: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Aaron” was organized by Florida A&M student curators and featured FAMU alumnus Eugene Aaron’s donated artworks.  Many of the art pieces Aaron donated are works he collected while traveling to America, Cuba, Paraguay and Suriname. His […]

A Florida A&M alumna and Allusions designer was thrilled when her sister phoned her that Toya Wright, co-star of the “Tiny and Toya” show was wearing her swimsuit while vacationing in the Turks and Caicos. “Her friend got them for her as a birthday gift,” Altrichia Cook said. “Nobody but […]

Maya Shea, a junior fine art student from Tallahassee, gently guided her paintbrush stroke by stroke against her canvas. The sketched portrait by Pierce Cook, a senior fine arts student with a concentration in design from Marineland, Fla., also enticed the attention of students walking on Florida A&M’s campus. This […]