Dear Mind Matters, I need your advice. I am the oldest of three children and the first to attend college. I recently discovered that my mother has a terminal illness. During a recent visit home, she made me promise that I would stay in school and finish the semester. I […]

I know you’ve seen them. People walk around wearing their high school letterman’s jacket. Is it me or is high school over, along with its ill faded grandeur? I love talking to these people who feel as though the small microcosm of high school, where they once were somebody, is […]

Angie Stone’s “Brotha” seems to be the anthem of black people everywhere. With her smooth words of love, Stone places men of African descent on a pedestal. Suddenly, it’s kind of hard to hate on brothas nowadays. It’s almost a sin. The things a brotha used to do that infuriated […]

They saw the pathetic little pajamas the children wore that morning, saw videos of their dead bodies. They heard the way Andrea Yates submerged the children in water, how they struggled, how the oldest managed to fight so ferociously that he surfaced a few times for air before his body […]

One day last week I was sitting in Ruby Tuesdays having lunch. I could not help but overhear the gentlemen sitting behind me. There were three black guys talking about how each of their days was going at work. It was obvious that they were car salesmen at a local […]

Every pew at St. Mary’s Church was filled-not on the ideal Sunday, but on a Tuesday evening. Students, politicians and various organizations gathered together to support the two-year remembrance of the One Florida Initiative Plan initiated by Gov. Jeb Bush. One Florida Initiative included in its bill, among other factors […]

This year’s Miss FAMU Fitness Pageant and Mr. FAMU Bodybuilding Contest will take Rattler fitness to a new level. Newly hired Campus Fitness Director Gei-Nam Lim has used his 15 years of experience in fitness and bodybuilding to add several improvements and perks to tonight’s annual competition. The competition, hosted […]

After seeing a six-game winning streak end in extra innings Monday night against Maine, Rattlers coach Joe Durant wondered if his team had reverted to its earlier bad habits and losing ways. “I was having doubts if we could play with teams like this. They proved me wrong,” Durant said. […]

I am a copyright coordinator with Xanedu, a publisher of college course packets. I am seeking to obtain copyright permission from this newspaper and need contact information so that we can send a request via fax or e-mail. Thank you for giving this your time and attention. Bill Samara

Hi Famuan, This letter is NOT for publication. I’m trying to find out the name and email addresses and/or phone numbers for the editor in chief and adviser. Can you email the info to me? Thanks! Ingrid (Middleton) Patrick, Newspaper Journalism, 1996