Thursday, October 17, 2024
Raising Cane’s, a popular chicken finger chain restaurant, is opening soon in the Varsity Plaza on West Tennessee Street. The restaurant will be adjacent to CVS and in front of the Target that FAMU and FSU students frequent. Matthew Williams, a fourth-year business administration student at FAMU, said he is […]
Friends and family of Alexander Boyd gathered together as they paid their respects to a fallen Rattler. Alexander Boyd, a 20-year-old Florida A&M University sophomore, passed away on Feb. 25, 2023, after drowning at Miramar Beach. A beautiful night of candlelight vigil service occurred at Southern Scholarship Foundation (SSF) Hansen […]
House Bill 1223 is threatening to ban instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity through eighth grade in Florida’s public schools. It also would prevent school employees from sharing their preferred pronouns or ask students theirs. As a result, LGBTQ+ community members in Tallahassee struggle to find safe spaces to […]
Unlicensed barbers in Florida will be allowed to perform restricted services under the supervision of a licensed barber, if a Senate bill become law. Senate Bill 1148, proposed by Senator Ana Maria Rodriguez, R-Doral, will allow practicing barbers to enhance their craft while they are supervised. The bill will allow […]
The club should be a place of entertainment, not combat. Students in Tallahassee have directly experienced an uptick in gun violence at nighttime events. According to the Tallahassee Democrats data database, 117 shootings have taken place since 2022. There have been fatal shootings outside and inside clubs, leaving students frustrated […]
Whether rain or shine, the electricity in the dugout or on the field, The Rattlers have made a name for themselves while competing at the HBCU Classic Tournament in Montgomery hosted by Alabama State softball this past weekend. On Friday, Feb. 24 FAMU’s softball team faced off against the Southern […]
Alexander Boyd, a sophomore at Florida A&M University and Tallahassee native, drowned on Saturday at Miramar Beach while on an annual trip with his scholarship housemates. The 20-year-old was an architecture major who graduated from Rickards High School in the spring of 2021. Gabrielle Jackson, a former English teacher of […]
Male attendant elections at FAMU may be closer than you think. At least that’s what senators Jaylin Hankerson-Strappy, Isaiah Clayborn, Kole Fortson, Isaiah Lysse and Jasmine Daniels are proposing. The five senators announced this evening during the Speaking and Lobbying forum that they were working on a “big bill” to […]
Famu men’s basketball team lost shockingly to Southern University 60-58 at Al-Lawson. Dimingus Stevens led the team in points with 16. Noah Meren tacked six points, and Jordan Tillmon finished the contest with eight. Jaylon Bates started the game off with an electrifying dunk! Bates’s dunk brought energy early for […]