The Florida A&M University varsity wrestling team may be the school’s best-kept secret. Florida A&M’s wrestling team is the only HBCU team in the Southeast Conference, and is certainly making a lot of noise. The team beat Florida State 33-30 Feb. 5, and is rolling through the season. The wrestling […]

The Florida A&M men’s basketball team (6-18 overall, 3-8 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) has lost only one game this year when it has led at halftime. They believe that starting a game is just as important as finishing it. The Rattlers’ 80-71 victory against the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore […]

Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Thursday after suffering chest pains. Two stents were placed inside a clogged heart artery. Clinton had quadruple bypass surgery after heart problems five years ago. The former president was reported to be “in good spirits and will continue to focus on the work of […]

Ten missionaries were arrested for performing an act they thought came from the heart. According to the New York Times, ten Americans were detained after being charged with child abduction as a result of taking children out of Haiti without the governments consent. The Americans are Baptist missionaries who intended […]

When Robert L. Johnson founded Black Entertainment Television in 1980, black Americans everywhere were floored. Finally, a network that black people could relate to. No one would have ever guessed that it would grow into what it is today. Today, 89 million households tune in daily to BET. Over the […]

On February 10, 2010 the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced that FAMU’s athletic probation has ended. James Elworth, the assistant director of the NCAA committee of infractions, wrote a letter to President Ammons about the probationary period ending on January 31, 2010. FAMU’s athletic department was placed on probation […]

The Florida A&M men’s basketball team is on a four-game road trip, and they are in a very tough stretch of their season. They have won two of their last eight conference games, they are on a three-game losing streak and on Monday, they lost to the worst team in […]

Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, and Tyreke Evans are all high profile NBA players that have one thing in common… one and done. ‘One and done’ is a player who attends college for only one year and then declares for the NBA draft. The controversy surrounding these players continues to climb […]

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professors Earl Braggs and Herman H. Battle spoke to students and faculty of Florida A&M’s School of Journalism and Graphic Communications on Feb. 8. Braggs read a couple of poems from his latest book, Younger Than Neil, which was published in 2009. In Younger Than […]

On Feb. 14 countries around the world will celebrate Valentine’s Day; but the story behind Valentine’s Day still remains a mystery. The History Channel website (www.history.com) featured two legends on the origins of this worldwide event. St. Valentine served as a priest during the third century in Rome. Legend says […]