DETROIT – For years they’ve warned of school-yard pushers, of liquor stores that don’t check IDs, of new drugs popping up in teenage bloodstreams. Now there’s a new enemy in Michigan for substance-abuse educators like the Troy Community Coalition and the Macomb County Prevention Coalition – an enemy bigger and […]

There are over 12,000 thousand students that attend FAMU and out of this number only three thousand students live in campus housing. The other nine thousand plus students don’t live on campus not because they do not want to, but because they cannot. FAMU only has 2,973 spaces available for […]

With all the drama in sports lately, ESPN seems as if it should be called the Soap Opera Network. The most recent installment in the ongoing drama of sports being Shaquille O’Neal getting charged $15,000 for throwing a misguided punch at Chicago Bull’s Brad Miller. In the same game, Charles […]

By now almost everyone in America has gotten wind of the divorce proceedings between basketball great, Michael Jordan and his soon to be ex-wife, Juanita. The issue of assessing blame for the failure of this relationship gets beyond the point of the real salient points. America has an admitted fascination […]

Parking is an issue of great concern on FAMU’s campus. In Spring 2001, it was told to students that we would be assessed transportation/access fees for the upcoming school year. I thought this was a clever way for the Office of Parking and Transportation Services to be able to ensure […]

In case anyone was mistaken prejudice against blacks still exists in the new millennium. During the 2001 U.S. Open, #1 seeded Martina Hingis made racist comments against the Williams sisters, stating: “Being black only helps [the Williams sisters]. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have […]

With Barrera/Morales II, De La Hoya/Vargas and Mosley/Forrest fights on the horizon in the coming weeks, it looks like it will be a strong year for championship boxing. Promoters in Mississippi, riding the trend, had matched a pair of notable heavy-heavyweights, Eric “Butterbean” Esch and William “Refrigerator” Perry, to a […]

Friday 1/18Women’s Indoor Track and Field: McNeese State Invitational Lake Charles, LASaturday 1/19Women’s Basketball vs. Morgan State 2:00 pmMen’s Basketball vs. Morgan State 4:00pmSwimming and Diving @ Florida Atlantic 2:00pm Men’s Indoor Track and Field: McNeese State Invitational Lake Charles, LAMen’s Tennis vs. Jacksonville 1:00pm Jacksonville, FL Sunday 1/20Men’s Tennis […]

In the sports universe, everything has its place. Players play, coaches coach, and fans cheer. In the complicated world that we live in, this simplicity is refreshing. Everyone knows their place. No one element of this order controls sports, but combined, it creates something special. That’s what makes sports so […]

#8220;Many Shores…Many Rhythms” is the title of Orchesis Contemporary Dance Theatre’s first performance of the spring. The title of the concert fully reflects the dance styles that will be featured. The works feature choreographers from Africa, India, Mexico, Brazil and Haiti. Abass Badji represents Casamance, Senegal. Badji’s version of “Balante” […]