Florida A&M is getting ready to kick off Homecoming 2010 on a healthy note. The 2010 Rattler 5K Urban Challenge and Wellness Expo takes place Saturday, Oct. 23. The FAMU recreational center, the Army ROTC, Navy ROTC and the Student Health Services have come together to organize the 5K-spiritrun. […]

Refuge House is a women and children shelter that has been providing services to survivors and victims of domestic and sexual violence for over twenty years. The shelter is having a candlelight vigil at Tom Brown Park Oct. 20th from 6-8 p.m.  “‘The Speak Out’ is to honor survivors […]

ew outlook on this situation and her visits create such comfort in my life, needed now more than ever. I was fooling myself when I thought it was almost over. I received a phone call at 8:13 p.m. on Oct. 6 from my oncologist. “That biopsy we did shows […]

I clutched the armrest in the dark, near-empty theater as frightening images bum-rushed my mind. My friend Jaylen nudged me, telling me to quit being so afraid, but all I could think about was the horrific scene I was about to be subjected to. I hate scary movies, so […]

I am an avid reader. However, getting lost in the labyrinth of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s mind in the novel “Let the Right One In” was a terrifying experience that I never want to relive. The world is rife with supernatural romance novels. Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series is proof that […]

He woke up every morning in a prison cell, fully aware that he was living on borrowed time. He wanted to beg, wanted to convince anyone of his innocence, but no one listened to criminals. No one listened to the condemned. It terrified him, but he knew it was […]

CAPE TOWN, South Africa —Longstreet in Cape Town greets visitors with a diverse, energetic atmosphere that unlike anywhere else in the world. Restaurants, electronics stores and clothing shops peddle their various wares, and soccer fans eager to support their teams roam the streets blowing loud vuvuzelas, a local instrument […]

Holiday light decor and vintage records plaster the walls of All Saint’s Café. Dressed in a casual plaid button up, fitted jeans, a Piston snapback and Chuck Taylors, Rufat Agayev browses the chalkboard menu of selective vegan wraps. He orders a burrito and a Vernor’s Ginger Ale, before making […]

Alumna Tracy Nicole Prather is coming back to Florida A&M to share her love of writing and to promote her first book “Who Said Peaches Were Perfect?” Prather will be at the FAMU bookstore the week of homecoming, Oct. 29, for a book signing. Prather graduated from FAMU in 1998 […]

Florida A& M’s Benjamin L. Perry building, is typically known for it’s classroom setting and lectures. However, Wednesday night, Rm. 300 was used as a safe haven for students to share intimate details of their “coming out” experience. LGBT, which stands for the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgendered Student Pride […]