In case anyone was mistaken prejudice against blacks still exists in the new millennium. During the 2001 U.S. Open, #1 seeded Martina Hingis made racist comments against the Williams sisters, stating: “Being black only helps [the Williams sisters]. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have […]

Parking is an issue of great concern on FAMU’s campus. In Spring 2001, it was told to students that we would be assessed transportation/access fees for the upcoming school year. I thought this was a clever way for the Office of Parking and Transportation Services to be able to ensure […]

By now almost everyone in America has gotten wind of the divorce proceedings between basketball great, Michael Jordan and his soon to be ex-wife, Juanita. The issue of assessing blame for the failure of this relationship gets beyond the point of the real salient points. America has an admitted fascination […]

With all the drama in sports lately, ESPN seems as if it should be called the Soap Opera Network. The most recent installment in the ongoing drama of sports being Shaquille O’Neal getting charged $15,000 for throwing a misguided punch at Chicago Bull’s Brad Miller. In the same game, Charles […]

There are over 12,000 thousand students that attend FAMU and out of this number only three thousand students live in campus housing. The other nine thousand plus students don’t live on campus not because they do not want to, but because they cannot. FAMU only has 2,973 spaces available for […]

DETROIT – For years they’ve warned of school-yard pushers, of liquor stores that don’t check IDs, of new drugs popping up in teenage bloodstreams. Now there’s a new enemy in Michigan for substance-abuse educators like the Troy Community Coalition and the Macomb County Prevention Coalition – an enemy bigger and […]

The men’s swimming and diving team thrilled the home crowd and made their fellow Rattlers proud, defeating Howard (115.5-86.5) while the women (80) defeated North Carolina A&T (30) falling to the Bison (96) in the second Annual HBCU Swimming and Diving Invitational Saturday. In the 200 yard IM, Torrence Ford […]

For many in music, 2002 is shaping up to be a sink-or-swim year. Artists who laid relatively low in 2001 need to make a big splash in the coming months. Here’s a guide to who’s got to prove they’ve still got it or risk being forgotten. MARIAH CAREY Flat sales […]

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – Marines and Army military police drilled on how to transfer suspected terrorist prisoners of the al-Qaida and Taliban movements to this Caribbean outpost Thursday as U.S troops 8,000 miles away moved out the first group of hooded and chained prisoners from Afghanistan. “Obviously this […]