If it had been proven that I couldn’t cook, would you welcome me into your home to prepare your meals? Would you take the risk that I would try to feed you something that you could not even digest? No, of course not. Well, why do we, as people of […]

After heavyweight plodder Jay Jenkins spit out his mouthpiece for a third time during an undercard bout, an exuberant fan eloquently summed up the frustrations of fight-starved Tallahasseans. “Breathe through your nose, you fat turd!” With that exhortation, Tallahassee welcomed boxing back to the Civic Center last Thursday. A rambunctious […]

Gov. Jeb Bush and Education Commissioner Charlie Crist beat lawmakers to the punch last week. Before legislators and other lawmakers could debate with Bush about using phonics to teach Florida students how to read, Bush had already assured most elementary schools that they will have only phonics-based instruction beginning next […]

Last week was a perfect display of how some students don’t know how to vote. It was my theory that students voted for candidates that would best represent the university and address it’s concerns, regardless of personal or professional relationships. I mean, that’s how I voted. For example, my roommate […]

Age 18 is considered adulthood -voting and making decisions that are beneficial to one’s survival. At this age, knowing and choosing right from wrong becomes an individual’s lot in life. I have always viewed an individual’s commitment to a college education as a sign of growing up or as an […]

Love is all releasing and all absorbingLove conquers all death for able she is eternal and sheIs sternally whispering her winds through my mindThe object of my desire has tattooed her image upon my membrances She has stampeded her fantasy across my soul I have lost…Control Tru love is never […]

Like every new mother, Lisa wakes up everyday thinking about her daughter, Taylor. The difference between Lisa and these new mothers is that Taylor died of SIDS, three months after her birth. Lisa put Taylor in her crib, after she had fallen asleep in her arms. Lisa checked on Taylor […]

Had it been another life and another time it may not be Cynthia Hughes Harris dean of Allied Health Sciences at FAMU and vice-president of the American Occupational Therapy Association. Instead it might be Cynthia Hughes Harris, vocalist and stage star. “There was a serious period of time when I […]

With 13 Grammy nominations going to a pair of rookie soul singers, India.Arie and Alicia Keys, soul music is industry-certified as the latest big thing. Grammy choosers might even be on to something. The fast rise of these two performers and the general acclaim flowing toward their peers – including […]

All I want you to do is be mine, Our souls to intertwine. I long for you to want me, need me, Touch me, please me. Say that you will always be, My lover, my best friend. My world, until we transcend, Into a time and place where we are […]