The Big Bend Area Club, which is an organization comprised of students from Tallahassee, brought 15 local high school students to campus as a part of its Shadow Explosion Program. During Homecoming, students were given the opportunity to follow members of the club as they went about their everyday lives. […]

After serving 24 years, six months and 13 days behind bars, Alan Crotzer was released from prison for a crime he did not commit. On Nov. 7, Crotzer, a native of St. Petersburg, spoke to students about his wrongful incarceration that lasted more than two decades. “The system completely failed […]

His name might not ring a bell. And few Rattlers know the scope of his impact on campus. For more than 30 years, Roland Gaines has been instrumental in increasing enrollment numbers and recruiting National Achievement Scholars to Florida A&M University. After a brief hiatus at North Carolina Central University […]

Nadiyah Knight, 19, a sophomore agricultural business student from Tallahassee, and former chairperson of the Student Relations Committee is dissapointed but not defeated after she was removed from her position as the chair of the SRC. Knight lost her position in a 20-8 vote, with 2 abstain, Knight was She […]

Many of those so-called Rattler fans were doing much more than cheering at Florida A&M University’s Homecoming football game. As an alumnus of FAMU, this was the first Homecoming football game I attended since my freshman year, and on Saturday I was embarrassed to be called a “Rattler fan.” In […]

Youth from the Irene C. Edmonds Youth Theatre will be hosting a play at the Charles Winter Wood Theatre on the campus of Florida A&M University this weekend. The Edmonds Youth Theatre is a non- profit group for young people housed on the campus of FAMU. It helps to motivate […]

Florida A&M University bowlers and officials said since becoming a National Collegiate Athletic Association approved sport five years ago at FAMU, the Lady Rattlers bowling team has felt overlooked when it comes to coverage and support compared to other sports on campus. “The school needs to become educated on all […]

Kemba Naimbi Smith spoke in Florida A & M University’s Lee Hall for Journalism colloquium, Nov. 8. Smith, alongside author Reginald Stuart, spoke to FAMU’s journalism students about Smith’s experience with a drug dealing and abusive boyfriend, serving jail time for a drug conspiracy and relating to the many black […]

Having a no-nonsense attitude has become a common thread among Florida A&M University students. FAMU students do not accept wrong whether it comes from the school’s administration, the local government, or any other body. When we felt Floyd’s Nightclub discriminated against us we boycotted the business. Discrimination is wrong, but […]

It seems as if America believes that because of the recent strike by Hollywood’s film writers and TV writers, there will be no more fresh episodes of some our favorite TV shows. According to CNN, many people will be forced to seeing reruns of their favorite television program because of […]