This month, as the nation and the African-American community celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., perhaps one of the most influential social leaders of the ’60s, the methods through which he affected positive change can still, in my opinion, be called into question. King influenced legislative and social […]

Marcus Garvey struggled with the charge of liberating states, liberating minds and liberating races. Today, FAMU’s Marcus Garvey Club works diligently with the purpose of liberating the state of consciousness in the FAMU community, encouraging its young African Americans to unite and press forward in a world where the struggle […]

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to […]

I know this is the MLK issue of the Famuan, and I know Dr. King fought and died for integration, but I have to be honest. When I applied for college back in 1999, only HBCUs were on my list. I chose to attend Florida A&M because the white population […]

There is a church in Atlanta that has been standing for 79 years. Today, it serves as one of the most visited tourist attractions in the nation. This church is known as Ebenezer Baptist Church, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a member. King was baptized there, he sang […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]