Dear Editor & Staff, I want to commend you on the consistent quality exhibited in each edition of the Famuan you produce. As a proud alumnus of FAMU, I use the online editions that I receive as a way to keep track of the happenings of the university and to […]

FAMU administrators, retired faculty and politicians remembered FAMU tennis legend Althea Gibson at a memorial service Wednesday in Lee hall. Although Gibson was known for her athletic talents, many who knew her said she left an everlasting mark of courage, wisdom and inspiration. “Althea made FAMU known to the world,” […]

Henry Kirby, associate vice president for student affairs, is expected to make a decision today on an election appeal that four candidates for freshman senator submitted Friday. The decision could lead to a new election for freshmen senators. Patricia Green-Powell, vice president for student affairs, was given the case due […]

One absence here and there shouldn’t matter, right? Wrong. FAMU has an attendance policy because attendance counts. College is a training ground for us. At FAMU we learn how to be professional and being professional includes, among other things, timeliness and presence. Do you honestly think that when you get […]

The tobacco companies have been demonized for lying to their customers, but as big tobacco is having its lies exposed, another section of American society is having a field day with lies. Anti-drug organizations have somehow gotten the idea that lying is okay as long as it’s for a good […]

The senate found SGA President Larry O. Rivers guilty on six counts of “malfeasance of his duties,” and after four and a half hours of deliberation voted to remove him from office early Thursday morning. However, dean of students, Henry Kirby, who spoke on the behalf of Vice-President for Student […]

Larry O. Rivers’ impeachment trial charges and verdicts Count 1 The defendant committed a malfeasance of his duties as Student Body President in failing to advertise for vacant positions within the Executive and Judicial Branches of Student Government Association.NOT GUILTY (Guilty 13, Not guilty 22) Count 2 The defendant committed […]

It was a discussion about beauty, pride and self-hate all narrowed down to one simple word – hair. Epicurean Fashion Experience and Naeemah Brewster, a natural hair specialist and founder of Benevolent Creations led a small group of approximately 30 students gathered in Perry Paige Tuesday evening in a dialogue […]

Hello fellow journailsts: This is Kendrick Marshall, editor of the Blue and White Flash on the campus of Jackson State University. I would like to say to the staff at FAMU, you guys are extraordinary in reporting the news on your campus. It is wonderful to see such great work […]

It was once a rule that blacks sit at the back of the bus, that women should not vote; would your advice have been to “just follow it, the rule is there for a reason?” I am not equating Civil Rights to class attendance, but a comparison can be drawn. […]