Thursday, July 24, 2025
Beginning in 2024, the SAT exam will become completely digital, shorter, and students will be allowed to use a calculator for the entire math section. On Jan. 25,2022, the College Board announced that the SAT will be taken digitally beginning in 2023 for international students and by 2024 for U.S. […]
Human sex traffickers are becoming more creatively discrete with tracking methods. Tallahassee residents are starting to worry that their community may be facing a repeated issue. In 2020, the Tallahassee Police Department closed the biggest commercial sex trafficking investigation in Tallahassee’s history. The exploitation of a teenage girl led to […]
The Florida Senate Committee on Health Policy, chaired by Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. (R-Hialeah), held a hearing Wednesday on controversial legislation — Senate Bill 146 — that would prohibit abortions after 15 weeks and expand the programs to reduce fetal and infant deaths. Republicans on a party-line vote rejected an […]
The stories of civil rights leaders who once called the City of Tallahassee their home are now carved in metal plaques. The Soul Voices: Frenchtown Heritage Trail is located along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to honor these Frenchtown heroes. According to Visit Tallahassee, Frenchtown is the oldest Tallahassee community; […]
Florida state Senate Bill 184 was introduced by Sen. Manny Diaz Jr., R-Miami, and Sen. Ray Wesley Rodrigues, R-Lee, and it has the support of Gov. DeSantis. The bill aims to place restrictions on discussions involving race in Florida’s educational systems. For some this means in K-12 classrooms individuals may […]
Florida state Senator Danny Burgess, R-Tampa, has filed a bill that would give the United States Space Force a legitimate place in state law. Senate Bill 438 will be a revision of “uniformed service” to include the Space Force among the other branches of the military. The USSF was declared […]
Florida A&M University goes down in history as the longest active Historically Black College & University (HBCU) in the nation with a collegiate wrestling men’s and women’s wrestling program. However, FAMU is the first and only HBCU to have a women’s wrestling team. In 2000, FAMU professor Thomas White started […]
Have you taken the civic literacy exam yet? Newly introduced Florida Senate Bill 188 would require all students enrolled in Florida’s State University System to meet a certain level on a civic literacy practicum. On the campus of Florida A&M, that criteria is already in place and it is a […]
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) for Florida staged a demonstration this morning at the roundabout on FAMU Way and Railroad Avenue. Their goal was to bring awareness to the lack of pay increases for FAMU’s employees who are members of the union. Members of AFSCME […]
It became evident early in the coronavirus pandemic that older ages are at a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 and becoming severely ill, but the Omicron and Delta variants of COVID-19 make matters worse. Both variants are two times more contagious as the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to medical experts, which […]