OK, so you’ve resolved to start working out this year – again. You’ve spent all your cash on those cute stretchy capri pants, a few cool new tops and an awesome new Walkman. But the most important item women buy is the one that no one else sees. Next to […]

When I was in middle school, I used to look at the football players on the field in their jerseys, helmets, pads, cleats, long socks and tight pants. Most of the girls around me liked watching the game because of the way the players looked in those tight-fitting pants. I, […]

Honey, caramel, hazelnut and mocha. This may sound like the latte menu at Starbuck’s Coffee, but it is actually a sampler of the assorted skin colors on FAMU’s campus. A journalism class recently conducted a survey of 80 people on the issue of skin color at FAMU. The unscientific poll, […]

Driving her red pickup truck across Florida in a statewide campaign for governor, Janet Reno, spoke to a crowd in Tallahassee on education and health issues Wednesday. In her brief speech, the former U.S. Attorney General said she would strive to make all Florida schools the best in the country. […]

The true essence of understanding a woman’s worth is understanding the woman, the whole woman, the beauty, the ugly, the good, the bad, the goofy, and the embarrassing – in a nutshell the complexity. Too many times, beauty is the standard, the principal meaning of evaluating whether a woman is […]

September/October Looks like that was a busy time for us Sleepin’ on…creepin’ on…cheatin’ on a reality that we know is absolute but subjecting ourselves to RELATIVE TRUTHS tucked tightly under covers over whispers between stares Glares shaded by lust reinforced by just a touch from an earthly hand connected to […]

As students at historically black colleges and universities celebrate black history month, majority white schools offer the most departments and degree programs in African and African-American studies. The reason for this disparity is linked to funding, interest and importance. History professor David Jackson Jr. said funding shortages are one of […]

President and Vice PresidentAndre Hammel (P) – 1,199Tisa Holley (VP)Birdette Hughey (P) – 1,154Robert Watson (VP) Miss FAMU Talitha V. Coverson – 754 (*)Oshia S. Gainer – 464Angelita Green – 138Hope Hampshire – 991(*) Mr. FAMUMarion J. Slaton – 1,367Jermaine Jack – 927 Queen of Orange and GreenRachel E. Hay […]

A Senate video lottery bill expected to pass through the regulated industries committee ran into an unexpected impasse Tuesday. During deliberations on SB 1298, a motion was raised to temporarily pass the bill and take up SB 1422, a pari-mutuel licensing bill sponsored by Sen. Rudy Garcia, R-Hialeah. An argument […]

After years of increased propaganda and more students going to great lengths to obtain an office, the student supreme court finally charged several campaigners with parading on the Set this past Friday. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Six campaigns were suspended for motor parades. “The Set was […]