Commissioner Bill Proctor Endorses Former SGA President Gillum I am pleased to endorse former FAMU Student Government Association President Andrew Gillum for the Tallahassee City Commission, Seat 2. Andrew is a former student I instructed. He is very articulate, thoughtful and real. He was a popular classroom student whose comments […]

Commissioner Bill Proctor Endorses Former SGA President Gillum I am pleased to endorse former FAMU Student Government Association President Andrew Gillum for the Tallahassee City Commission, Seat 2. Andrew is a former student I instructed. He is very articulate, thoughtful and real. He was a popular classroom student whose comments […]

I made a small typographical error in the “Gov. Ryan” letter submission I just sent. I wrote: “THE SUCCESSES BRING THE HARD WORK AND BRAVERY” — and I meant to say: “the successes BEING the hard work…” not the word: “BRING” — sorry. Gordon Watt

SUBJECT: Contact Info AND I “editorially added” a bit to be balanced! Thank you for writing back, Augustine: I AM GOING TO ANSWER IN CAPITAL LETTERS BELOW TO MAKE THE READING EASIER:In a message dated Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:29:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, RhoBlaze writes:>hi, gordon.>i want to let […]

Dear Editor: Residents of Washington, D.C. have no vote in the US Congress. That’s right, the nation’s capital of the United States of America provides a daily lesson of legalized oppression. As a result, over 572,000 people pay almost $2 billion in federal taxes each year, yet have no vote […]

Racism will be here until we educate the youth.Once we educate the youth on its origin low and behold a change will show. It will be hard to change 400 years plus of hard traning. You see racism was designed to keep people apart.In order to destory it we must […]

WASHINGTON–President Bush said Wednesday he would challenge the use of racial preferences in admissions to public universities while proposing an alternative way to guarantee diversity in college classrooms. If the Supreme Court follows his approach, efforts to achieve diversity in higher education–and by extension, in other institutions throughout society–could shift […]

Lebron James is barely 18 and has already been compared to Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. The 6’7″ high school senior from Akron, Ohio is the No. 1 high school player in the country. Shoe companies like Nike and Adidas, the NBA, and the sports media have courted […]

Speaking to a crowd of students, faculty, alumni, and for the first time FAMU DRS students, Jonathan Quarles, president of the university chapter of the NAACP set the tone for the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation. “We have not come to mourn the late, great Dr. Martin Luther King, […]

The Black Archives Research Center and Museum broke ground to bring history out of the boxes. “Today is a red letter day for the history of Florida A&M University,” said FAMU Board of Trustees member James Corbin to about 100 people who attended the ceremony. James Eaton, who used historical […]