Tuesday, July 29, 2025
North American Properties (NAP), the initial developer of Cascades Park, unveiled two monuments this morning at the new Cascades Historical Plaza. Since 2017, city officials and historians have been meeting regularly to discuss plans for building the displays after NAP promised to highlight the city’s untold history. What once was […]
As a part of Florida A&M University’s welcome week, Efferson Student Union and Activities hosted the First Strike volunteer and involvement fair. The event took place earlier today in the Grand Ballroom from noon to 3 p.m. With more than 15 service-based campus clubs and organizations present, as well as […]
Florida A&M University is known for its extraordinary and creative grad pictures. Students take this opportunity to show their individuality and celebrate their accomplishments. Every semester the photos from our illustrious university go viral and we as a community celebrate the new graduates. On Friday, Terica Williams, a recent master’s […]
What does it take for a Rattler to go viral? Not much, it seems. In fact, nothing at all. Terica Williams (@tericastar) proved that on Friday when she shared photos from her graduation photoshoot on her Instagram account. However, the photo that shocked the internet is a picture of Williams […]
Florida A&M University Athletics is partnering with Twitter to create a Twitter community. FAMU is the first HBCU to get this partnership. According to Twitter, these communities were created to “give people a dedicated place to connect, share, and get closer to the discussions they care about most.” Admins and […]
Funds provided by the American Rescue Plan will assist students facing academic difficulties caused by COVID-19. These funds will cover summer school costs for students in Leon County this school year and next school year. Schools that are willing to proceed with this decision will be sending invitation letters home […]
Historically, the term “Year Of the Woman” was formulated in the late 1960s. However, the term wasn’t popularized in the media until 1992 when a wave of women complained that Anita Hill, who testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had been sexually inappropriate with her, was mistreated by an […]
On Nov. 3, 2020, Tiffany Baker became the youngest African American woman to be elected judge in the Second Judicial Circuit at 35. This was not just a huge win for Baker’s law career, but a historical moment for Black women and girls in the state of Florida. Baker defeated […]
Centuries of women have been trying to uproot the misogyny ridden foundation of society, picking up their pitchforks and taking to the streets in demand for basic human rights, individual freedoms and a level playing field. Though we have better education and more freedoms than once allowed to women, have […]