Sunday, July 20, 2025
Andre Green, associate director of New Student Orientation. Andre Green’s passion for student recruitment has obliterated everything in its path since he discovered it. Green, the associate director of New Student Orientation and Campus Visits at Florida A&M University, has been administering the orientation process for more than 10 years. The […]
Academic leadership award winners, Daziyah Sullivan (left) and Latarence Butts (right) for this year's BEYA Awards STEM Conference. Photo Credit: FAMU FORWARD This year’s 32nd annual BEYA, Black Engineers of the Year Awards STEM Conference was special for two Florida A&M University students. Daziyah Sullivan, a second-year mechanical engineering […]
Arnita Tucker-McFarland, (left), Shereada Harrell, directors of the FAMU Career and Professional Development Center at the raffle station for students. Photo credit: DeBria Payne Florida A&M University partnered with J.C. Penny to host a Suit-Up event from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on April 15, giving students the opportunity […]
Race may seem like the underlying difference between HBCUs and PWIs, but the day-to-day interactions between professors and students during fundamental learning is what is setting these two institutions apart. According to Pew Research, in 2015 only 3 percent of the nation’s higher learning institutions were HBCUs, but just 9 […]
The set of Schoolhouse Rock Live! Photo Courtesy: Kaiyah Clarke When one first enters the auditorium at Tallahassee Community College, there appears to be a jungle gym of some sort on the stage. A closer look reveals an elementary classroom, a trip down memory lane. The popular cartoon TV […]
Caption Tampa native and FAMU alum, Erjaam Hayes, came back to his old stomping grounds on Monday to give students in the School of Business and Industry and the School of Journalism & Graphic Communication an inside look at the NBA G-League. Hayes attended FAMU between the years of 2001-2007, […]
Photo credit: MGN Online Looking at the history of successful African-American businesses, there’s a common question about whether or not blacks actually support them. When Kiara Woods displays her designer treats at events attended primarily by black women, they are often interested in her designs, and in her experience as […]
Rapper Cardi B, performing “Bodak Yellow” at Play Bar in Tallahassee, October 2017. Credit: Nadia Felder It’s catchiness, realness and ratchetness, all wound up into one hard-rocking album. It’s invading my life, my room and my earphones. It’s “Invasion of Privacy.” Female rapper Cardi B might have just bestowed the […]
Rebel Ubuntu Inc. seeks to bring about a social and cultural renaissance that inspires self-esteem and pride in the souls of the people Photo credit: Rebel Ubuntu Inc. Rebel Ubuntu Inc. seeks to bring about a social and cultural renaissance that inspires self-esteem and pride in the souls of the people. By doing so, the organization […]
A picture of Janel Diaz before the transition process and name change. When Janel Diaz was a child, dressing like a boy and playing with action figures just weren't her thing. Instead, you could find her playing dress up with paper dolls. “Me and my cousins would play and […]