Monday, September 23, 2024
FAMU men's basketball coach Robert McCullum is leading the Rattlers in his first season as head coach. Photo credit: Sydne Vigille Robert McCullum, is confident his team is heading in the right direction. The first-year coach of Florida A&M’s men’s basketball program acknowledges that the team struggled early in the […]
Middle school students clapping after Michelle Bono, event facilitator and influential speaker, completed her presentation. Photo credit: Jessica Gardner The Leon County Health Department along with Florida A&M University’s School of Allied Health Sciences hosted the 12th annual 2018 Students Working Against Tobacco leadership summit on Feb. 22 in the […]
Tevin King doing a push up with girl on his back. As college students, we spend a lot of time studying, doing schoolwork and hanging out with friends. One thing we aren’t making time for is exercise. Limited food choices make it very difficult to eat healthy so it’s important […]
Florida A&M Athletic Director Milton Overton Jr., unexpectedly announced in October that he would be accepting the same position with Kennesaw State. Weeks later following the Rattler football season, the university appointed John Eason as Interim Director of Athletics. FAMU’s athletic department underwent a plethora of improvements under Overton’s […]
Devante Jefferson is a music producer, radio personality and entrepreneur. You may know him better as “Backpack Beatz.” The 26-year- old FAMU alum is originally from Milton. Backpack learned to play the piano and the drums so his transition into producing was an easy one. He quickly started […]
Nefertari's menu Photo submitted by Kayla Carter If you have not had the Nefetari’s experience, what are you waiting for? This black-owned restaurant offers nothing but a great experience from when you step foot through the door, up to when you leave with your belly full and cravings satisfied. African […]
Students in the Tallahassee Future Leaders Academy visiting FAMU. Photo credit: Willie Williams The Tallahassee Future Leaders Academy (TFLA) is a premier leadership program that provides teens with mentorship, job readiness training, financial literacy education and summer employment. The program utilizes an eight-week innovative curriculum, that includes two weeks of […]
Participants of Black Girls Day at the Capitol preparing for press conference inside of the Capitol. Photo credit: Jennifer Osias A group of passionate Black women from Miami Workers Center and several organizations held “Blacks Girls Day at the Capitol” on Feb. 15 at Florida’s capitol. Miami Workers Center, an […]
Photo credit: Sydne Vigille The Florida A&M Rattlers hosted the Alcorn State University Braves this weekend for a four-game series. The Rattlers suffered a tough loss Friday night in the opening game of the series, 8-5. A bright spot of the evening was the performance on the mound by relief […]
The Rattlers dropped the last game of the series against Alcorn State Sunday 7-2 Photo by: Sydney Vigille Alcorn State University took the last game of a four game series Sunday at Moore-Kittles Field as the Florida A&M baseball program fell 7-2. Though defeated, the Rattlers stayed in good spirits –hoping to […]