Excited students filled their school’s cafeteria on Jan. 24 for the chance to receive encouraging words, hugs and school supplies, brought to them by FAMU athletes. Students at Nims Middle School were paired with a FAMU athlete as part of the University’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee’s initiative to provide community service […]

Rosa Parks made history when she refused to give up her seat at the front of a bus and ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott. What some may not know, however, is another significant moment in the civil rights movement occurred in Tallahassee in the mid 1950s. For more than six […]

To say that people are standing on the shoulders of history is more than a metaphor. In fact, the saying has a great degree of accuracy on the highest of seven hills. Less than two centuries ago, territorial Gov. W.P. Duval owned “Highwood,” a slave plantation that existed where FAMU […]

In the period following the invention of basketball in 1891 by James A. Naismith, basketball teams were called “fives” because of the starting five players. Like the rest of society at the time, basketball was segregated; teams composed of all black players were known as ‘black fives’. The period between […]

There is an enemy lurking in the homes of blacks. It passes down from generation to generation. It puts people on medication, in hospitals and into graves. This illness is hypertension, known to most people as high blood pressure. Hypertension is a leading cause of death in the black community. […]

Megan Ain Malachi/Johnson C. Smith University While scanning channels trying to find something to watch on televison, I am always amazed at the amount of substandard slapstick comedies that are geared towards Black viewers. Ironically, BET(Black Entertainment Television), is one of the worst offenders. In the past five years BET […]

Do you really know where you are going with your life? Among all the students on FAMU’s campus, I have found one fundamental tie that seems to bind all of the students on this campus: no one really has a clue about what they want to do in life. Are […]

Why are the same issues plaguing our campus every year, every semester, every week, every day? Because there is no accountability, that’s why. Due to the occurrence of the same issues and situations, one would think that change will soon come, or at least be around the corner. But I […]

After seven months of keeping alumni, boosters, students, faculty, staff and Rattler fans in limbo, FAMU administration has finally decided to address the proposed move to Division I-A – in the Tallahassee Democrat. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, President Fred Gainous sent an e-mail to trustees Thursday asking them to […]

Golf 1949: Early one hazy Texas morning, Ben Hogan almost died when a Greyhound bus collided with his car. When it became clear a crash is unavoidable, Hogan heroically threw himself in front of his wife Valerie, who was in the passenger’s seat. Ironically, the engine was tossed back in […]