Some college students may find it hard to play just one sport. Derrick Shaw plays two – football and baseball. The demands of a dual-sport and full-time student include a rigorous fitness training that begins at 5 a.m, classes at 8 a.m., then he heads to practice after classes at […]

Danielle Gallman, 22, and Christopher Normann, 19, have been together a little more than a year. Gallman is black and Normann is white. As a result, Gallman said she has lost several people she used to consider friends over judgments and ill feelings toward her interracial relationship. “We have gotten […]

Contraceptive commercials have transformed from standard advertising to subliminal messages. Many condom commercials have gone beyond informing the public about practicing safe sex. Several of these advertisements are simply interested in displaying the pleasurable part of the product. For example, some Trojan commercials advertise condoms as so thin it “feels […]

FAMU will continue its support for Haiti by becoming the first HBCU to send a team to the country on behalf of the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Henry Lewis, dean at the School of Pharmacy, will be traveling to Haiti along with three or four pharmacy faculty members […]

The Florida A&M University men’s basketball team is halfway through a four-game road trip, and they have yet to pick up a win. The most recent loss for the Rattlers (5-18 overall, 2-8 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference) came on Monday night when they lost to the Coppin State University […]

A strange season took a solid turn upward Sunday night for the Lady Rattlers. ‘Instead of losing back-to-back games for the second time in three weeks, the Lady Rattlers battled back from a nine-point halftime deficit to defeat the Coppin State Lady Eagles, 74-72. This season has been one of […]

A  recent Florida A& M graduate , Charles Gee, was shot multiple times on Feb.9, 2010 at Big Daddy’s on West Tennessee Street. Gee was taken to the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. David McCranie, the  public information officer for the Tallahassee Police Department, said officers responded […]

S outh Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer is quoted saying, “My grandmother told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals…because they breed. You’re facilitating the problem of you give an animal or a person ample food supply.” He was equating poor people to stray animals. Presumably, these […]

Tough times seem to stay with the for the Florida A&M men’s basketball team.  The Rattlers lost to the Morgan State Bears on Sunday 64-98, but the Bears were not the only thing that gave the Rattlers trouble this weekend-“mother nature” also might have worked against them. The game against […]

Last Friday night was an evening filled with music and entertainment as The Diva Foundation and MAAC brought Divas Simply Singing to Lee Hall auditorium. Hosted by founder and entrepreneur, Sheryl Lee Ralph, The Diva Foundation is a national not-for-profit charitable organization dedicated to advancing, rewarding, and celebrating achievements that […]