When it comes to romance, no day can symbolize love like Valentine’s Day. Candlelight dinners, chocolates, roses and even love letters all epitomize this tradition. This is the time where couples old and new come together with meaningful ways of expressing themselves. But where did the holiday come from? The […]

Has crime at Florida A&M University gone too far? Campus police have come to the conclusion that implementing an identification check upon visitation to the Palmetto apartments at night will reduce the University’s crime rate. But, is all that necessary? Warning: a FAMU Rattler card is not difficult to come […]

The nation made it very clear that we didn’t want anything to do with Susan B. Anthony; at least not on the dollar coin. Sacagawea didn’t fare much better on the head side of the coin either. But now the government’s forgettable attempt to make the dollar coin a significant […]

The School of Journalism and Graphic Communication in conjunction with the Capital City Chamber of Commerce presented the Black History Month Festival Theatre in Perry-Paige auditorium on Feb. 9. The show opened with praise dance performed by the Community of Faith praise dancers. Following the praise dancers was a solo […]

The world-renowned Alvin Ailey II Dance Theatre performed at Lee Hall Sunday as a part of its North American tour. The company is in the second week of a six-week tour. Ailey II is composed of young talent from The Ailey School in New York. Jermaine Terry, a member of […]

Coming into the Florida State Classic this weekend, the Lady Rattlers softball team had high hopes of proving that historically black colleges and universities could compete with other teams nationally.   Unfortuanteley for them, the team’s 0-3 record showed otherwise. The softball team contended against Radford University (2-1), Florida State University (2-0) […]

Mistakes were the theme once again in the University’s three-game series against the United States Naval Academy as the Rattlers coughed up a total of 17 errors. Despite a lackluster showing in game one, falling 12-3 to Navy, and dropping game three 5-1, FAMU was able to pick up its […]

From “Coming to America” to “Nutty Professor,” moviegoers have been entertained by the antics of Eddie Murphy for the past 25 years. And some fans have awaited his return to his traditional form of comedy. He has done that with “Norbit.” In “Norbit,” like many of Murphy’s movies, he plays […]

World War I started because of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and when you think about it, did that guy hold any importance to the U.S.? And America entered World War II due to the devastating Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Now, at the beginning of January, the dictator […]

The School of Journalism and Graphic Communication may have to continue the remainder of the semester without many of its graduate assistants. Students employed through the graduate assistant program have threatened to quit their jobs as a result of the current payroll issues. But the problem extends beyond the journalism […]