Black Colleges are important to our young black students.Black students need to know that they do have schools that are black own and can help them to reach their goals in life, but are the students getting good help? One student had gone to the Admission Office to change his […]

Dr. Charlie Nelms believes that FAMU is a national leader among colleges and he strongly feels that he can help build upon the excellent foundation FAMU already has. He believes that one strong aspect of sound leadership is the ability to listen to all who are involved with any every […]

Represented in Atlanta will be the familiar Fortune 500 conferences – Big 12, Big Ten and ACC. Kansas and Maryland were No. 1 seeds, and Oklahoma should have been. Indiana may have been a No. 5 seed, but if these Hoosiers are not as recognizable as Duke, Bob Knight’s former […]

For everyone that hates a sequel that isn’t as good as the first one, don’t worry. “Blade II” won’t let you down. “Blade II ” picks up in the Czech Republic two years after the first one left off. Blade (Wesley Snipes) – half-man, half-vampire – is looking for his […]

A Kentucky-bred group takes it back to their country “roots” on their debut album, “Watermelon, Chicken, & Gritz.” Nappy Roots, a new group on Atlantic Records, is putting Kentucky on the map with its different style and simple lyrics. The group is composed of six guys who met on the […]

Full of human emotions, FAMU’s Essential Theater brings us Spunk, directed by Reggie Kelly, who also brought us Five Guys named Moe. Written by Zora Neale Hurston and adapted by George C. Wolfe, the play contains three different tales of the gains and struggles of black Americans. The dramatized tales […]

David Carter, president of Eastern Connecticut University, was the first candidate interviewed on Monday. Standing on a strong and thorough resume`, Carter’s experience touched in the various areas of shared governance, financial planning, campus technology, as well as recruitment of students and faculty. Ada Burnette, faculty senate president, asked Carter, […]

Willie E. Gary, a nationally-known attorney, delivered a message of inspiration to faculty, staff, students and friends as he praised honorees for their achievements at the annual Honors Convocation Tuesday. A graduate of both Shaw University and North Carolina Central in Durham, N.C., Gary is a multi-millionaire who owns a […]

After the resignation of President Frederick Humphries, the FAMU Board of Trustees began interviewing candidates for the permanent position of FAMU’s president. Originally, the board of trustees said it would have a permanent president by the beginning of March. However, less than a week away from the month of April, […]

So in one night, the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences decides to bestow black Hollywood with not one, not two, but three Oscars in one night. Who says affirmative action is dead? Not the arrangers of Negro Night at the Movies. Why this year, I wonder, out of […]