OK, so you’ve resolved to start working out this year – again. You’ve spent all your cash on those cute stretchy capri pants, a few cool new tops and an awesome new Walkman. But the most important item women buy is the one that no one else sees. Next to […]

All I want you to do is be mine, Our souls to intertwine. I long for you to want me, need me, Touch me, please me. Say that you will always be, My lover, my best friend. My world, until we transcend, Into a time and place where we are […]

With 13 Grammy nominations going to a pair of rookie soul singers, India.Arie and Alicia Keys, soul music is industry-certified as the latest big thing. Grammy choosers might even be on to something. The fast rise of these two performers and the general acclaim flowing toward their peers – including […]

Had it been another life and another time it may not be Cynthia Hughes Harris dean of Allied Health Sciences at FAMU and vice-president of the American Occupational Therapy Association. Instead it might be Cynthia Hughes Harris, vocalist and stage star. “There was a serious period of time when I […]

Like every new mother, Lisa wakes up everyday thinking about her daughter, Taylor. The difference between Lisa and these new mothers is that Taylor died of SIDS, three months after her birth. Lisa put Taylor in her crib, after she had fallen asleep in her arms. Lisa checked on Taylor […]

Love is all releasing and all absorbingLove conquers all death for able she is eternal and sheIs sternally whispering her winds through my mindThe object of my desire has tattooed her image upon my membrances She has stampeded her fantasy across my soul I have lost…Control Tru love is never […]

I must’ve spent all my creative juices downing Halle “T & A” Berry last week, because it seems that I don’t have a single thing to blast this week. Rattlers, you may want to put this particular week in history. I have nothing bad to say about any celebrity in […]

What is that unbearable smell? It couldn’t be the women’s restroom, or could it? On a daily basis I am appalled by the horrible conditions of the dorm restrooms. Upon arriving to FAMU in my wildest dreams I’d never think taking a shower would become an activity I hated. On […]

Salt Lake City extinguished its Olympic flame Sunday, so it’s time to move on to the next phase of athletic glory – figuring out which athletes will cash in. Most eyes focus first on the 16-year-old girl who jumped into the spotlight by beating out Michelle Kwan and other more […]

Vladimir Klitschko is defending his title against Frans Botha. Lennox Lewis is still angling for a shot at Mike Tyson. These heavyweight champions sure aren’t risking life and limb taking on the top contenders. Shane Mosley took his lumps against Vernon Forrest. Bernard Hopkins knocked out Felix Trinidad. Roy Jones… […]