The National Basketball Association completely changed the way the game is played when it approved zone defenses among a myriad of rule changes including defensive three seconds and the elimination of the illegal defensive violation in mid-April of 2001. Gone are the days of classic one-on-one matchups between great defensive […]

Florida lawmakers are planning the state’s budget for the upcoming year and have fallen back on a trusted solution to university funding – raising tuition. Reports in the Tallahassee Democrat state that the House and Senate have earmarked tuition increases for Florida’s public universities. Along with Gov. Jeb Bush’s proposed […]

President Fred Gainous extended a “challenge for change” during Thursday’s State of the University Address. He expressed the necessity of commitment on behalf of the faculty to transitions the University is making, highlighting the use of new technology and overcoming past mistakes. The president informed the audience that the Enterprise […]

Darn. Shoot. Flippin’. Booty. What is so wrong with using these words instead of the alternatives heard so often in today’s radio and television programs? Absolutely nothing. Instead of defiling our entertainment venues with profanity filled language, producers and screenwriters must start using the home training their parents hopefully instilled […]

Ladies and gentlemen, players and pimps, Negroes of the Necropolis – rise from your graves! Contrary to the popular opinion of the day, neither Chevrolet trucks nor sport utility vehicles represent the heartbeat of America, unless you have confused America’s heartbeat with the blood-hungry throb of capitalism that rules this […]

For the last two weeks, I have been trying to be happy. Most of the time I am, but lately it’s been a struggle. Lately, the only thing coming my way is a bunch of unhappy people. People I work with, people I go to school with and even people […]

A celebration for the men’s basketball team was held Tuesday evening at The Moon nightclub. The festivity, which was sponsored by the Capital Outlook, was in honor of the team’s accomplishments this season. FAMU men’s basketball team went from having a losing record, to winning the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament […]

For Cornelius Green, skipping and dodging classes in middle school constituted his attempts to conceal his learning disability from friends and teachers. “I would play sick, pretend to be sleepy, and skip class so nobody would know I had dyslexia.” Dyslexia is a learning disorder characterized by reading difficulties that […]

They call themselves The All Mighty Zoes, a family of Haitian-bred rappers who emerged from Miami. Their latest album, “Can’t Sleep On It,” is the raw lyrical content of Cokane, TCK, Greedy Black and Gucciano, the four individuals who make up AMZ. The 19-track album throbs with aggressive club beats […]

The FAMU Section of The National Council of Negro Women is raising money to donate to Oprah Winfrey’s Oprah’s Angel Network for the AIDS pandemic in Africa. “We are the first HBCU to tackle this topic of raising money for the African AIDS epidemic,” said Sabrina Davis, president of the […]