When TJT films came to Tallahassee while hosting its 40-city audition tour for the upcoming film, “The System Within,” they found a star in the making. Larry Lee Morris is the chief executive officer of JazzyPHAT Productionz, an employee of the Cove Café and a senior Afr0-American Studies student. With […]

In hopes of raising awareness about its existence to the student body, FAMU’s chapter of Florida’s anti-tobacco program STRIKE, held its first event of the semester on Tuesday. STRIKE, the Student Tobaco Reform Initiative: Knowledge for Eternity, is part of the college advocacy initiative. Its goal is to educate Florida […]

City Commission candidate Andrew Gillum entered the room to a round of applause from about 50 supporters at the St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church. “All praise be to God,” said Gillum, who advanced to the Feb. 25 run-off for the city commission seat he vied for. Gillum edged […]

I cannot believe that Michael Jordan was selected as a reserve to the all-star game. Instead of making the trip to Atlanta this weekend, Jordan should be packing his bags for Las Vegas because we all know that’s where he wants to be. The athletes playing the best basketball should […]

FAMU won its fifth straight game Monday by defeating South Carolina State University 60-50. The Rattlerettes improved to 11-8 overall and 7-3 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, as SCSU dropped to 6-12, 4-6. “We came out slow, but a win is a win,” said junior guard Yolanda Dixon. Definitely taking […]

#8220;We’re small pieces of leather, but we’re well put together” are the words that were set above the Rattlerettes dugout on Tuesday. The well put together team of 20 tied a double header with Mercer University in their first two home games of the season. In the first game FAMU […]

To say that Michael Jordan doesn’t belong on the Eastern Conference All-Star team is ridiculous. There may be other guards such as Jalen Rose, Ricky Davis and Jordan’s teammate Jerry Stackhouse, who are averaging more points per game than “His Airness,” but there is a problem with them. One is […]

The voter turnout for the mayoral and city commission elections was about 31 percent for each precinct, with the mayoral race leading with 32.4 percent. “I think it’s highly unlikely that some of these people couldn’t win,” said Corey White, a 22-year-old junior biology student from St. Petersburg, referring to […]

Susan Borland still remembers when space shuttle Columbia took off on Jan. 16. She was right there, between the countdown clock and the American flag at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. “We were as close as you could get,” said Borland, associate flight director of the Challenger Learning Center of Tallahassee. […]

Whether they stood on the foul line or wide open behind the three-point, nothing fell for the Rattlers in the Gaither Gymnasium on Monday. Even worse, FAMU’s weaknesses were against a South Carolina State team that was undefeated (9-0) in the conference resulting in a tough 69-63 loss before a […]