Over 150 students gathered in the Grand Ballroom Monday night to hear poet and activist Kevin Powell present the “State of the Black Men” address. The forum, which the Student Government Association sponsored as a conclusion to Black History Month, addressed issues that affect black men. Powell, who appeared on […]

The American Intelligible Mock Trial Association sponsored its 20th Annual Mock Trial Friday. Suits, ties, stockings and pearls pervaded Perry Paige Auditorium that evening, as students from various universities exhibited their adroitness. “A mock trial is when students practice as if it’s a real trial,” said Williams Ravenell, Ph. D., […]

Recruiting top quality students to FAMU has been a challenge in recent years for the University’s administration. A lot has changed since TIME Magazine’s Princeton Review named FAMU “College of the Year” in 1997; during the late ’90s, FAMU was considered one of the top colleges in the country. From […]

Every day there’s a college student who has to go to the FAMU campus clinic for treatment. Many may be forced to come out of pocket for their medical costs regardless of whether they are insured. But the question is, do they have health insurance? There are 20 to 30 […]

I don’t normally respond to these things but I felt compelled by your article. America and indeed most of Europe owe a huge debt to African and indigenous Native Americans. In the Jewish holocaust an estimated 6 million people were killed and tortured. Germany has since apologized and gives Israel […]

With today being the last day of Black History Month, it is time to recognize one of the most underrated black baseball players of all time – Josh Gibson. Who? Josh Gibson, catcher of the Negro League’s Homestead (Pa.) Grays, is the most underrated baseball player – if not the […]

Don’t call them Venus or Serena. But, just like the Williams sisters, these two siblings have one thing one their minds – tennis. Eka Jvania, 24, and her brother Zurab Zhvania, 20, from the Republic of Georgia, have been playing tennis for as long as they can remember. “I believe, […]

I would like to believe that we have come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, Jim Dandy and Sambo. I would like to believe America has moved passed such foolishness, but, really, whom am I kidding? Why is it, that in the year 2005 -173 years after […]

Members of the Student Supreme Court have decided they have no jurisdiction over the Electoral Commission’s case against Student Union and Activities Director Alice Mathis. Chief Justice Jason Hurst said the court could handle appeals against the electoral commission or another candidate, but not against university staff members. “We deliberated […]

Twelve to 15,000 pieces of mail are handled by the Florida State University campus post office daily, according to the post office’s Web site, http://printing.fsu.edu. This, however, is not done before passing through another set of hands at Florida State University’s Printing and Mailing Center at 800 W. Madison St. […]