I have been hearing from an array of sources that the men’s basketball team is supposed to be good this year. Of course, I had to go and see for myself. After watching them play two exhibition contests in Gaither Gymnasium, I must say that my sources were correct. Rattlers […]
Author: Ibram Rogers
Rattlerettes earn championship title
Going into the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament, the volleyball team was seeded number one. FAMU proved why it was ranked at the top by rolling over all of its opponents to obtain the 2002 MEAC Championship title. The Rattlerettes came into the tournament with a winning streak of 51 consecutive […]
Fort Valley professor researches black comics
FORT VALLEY, Ga. – For B. Keith Murphy, what began as a boyhood passion for comic books and superheroes has grown into a pursuit for rare and largely forgotten black comic strips. Murphy, a professor at Fort Valley State University in central Georgia, has spent the past year collecting and […]
2 parties, 1 vision
The Republicans have taken over the political system of the United State of America. The Democrats are trying to rebound from the devastation. Something must be done in order to return to the happy stability of the two-party system the country once had. As most citizens know, the Republicans stand […]
Pain, injuries fail to deter hoopster
Senior forward Deidra Bateman’s heart must have four extra chambers to guzzle the boatloads of intestinal fortitude flowing through her body. The 5-foot-10-inch, Gadsden, Ala., native simply has more heart than the average basketball player because it’s overflowing with an immense love for the game. Bateman has endured four knee […]
Atlantic unwraps ear candy
Fat Joe knows rap, Sean Paul knows dancehall and Craig David knows R&B. Besides the fact they could all pass for first cousins, these three different artists with their three different styles do have another thing in common: their record label. Atlantic Records will feature Fat Joe’s new album “Loyalty” […]
Lyrics pave ‘8 Mile’ soundtrack
With rapper Eminem being the main character in “8 Mile,” you might expect the album to be full of songs from Eminem and his crew, D-12. Eminem, however, only appears on three of the 16 tracks, with members from D-12 appearing on just three more. That’s a good thing. For […]
Ramadan
Ramadan falls on the ninth month in the lunar calendar and to people of the Islamic faith it is the holiest month of the year. This month is special to the followers of Islam because they believe during this month Allah revealed the first five verses of the Quran to […]
SBI-slaves
You say we are slaves and in a few years down the line, we’ll begin to hate our $90,000 paying job. SBI teaches us how to work for the white man and not for our own community. If you want to do something on your own, you must have the […]
The LIE of SBI: Capitalism
I was infuriated by Theo Wilson’s flawed ideologies concerning SBI. While SBI is not without its own flaws, to say that “Students are brainwashed” and that SBI students are “taught how not to be themselves so the boss won’t feel threatened by their ethnicity,” is incorrect, unjust, and plainly ignorant. […]