The KGRM Season of Giving Campaign is vastly approaching. All area communities are invited to participate in the 2009 event.”Our goal is to collect and distribute toys and other gifts to the underprivileged children in our community,” said Joyce B. Evans, 91.5 FM station manager. Evans is the director of […]
Author: KAELYA BOYD
Birth of a Goddess
The Delta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. presented The Birth of a Goddess-The Story of Isis Fall 2009 Miss Black & Gold Scholarship Pageant on Nov. 5 in T.H. Harris Auditorium.It was there that Valencia Chaffold, an Arlington, TX, native, was crowned Miss Black & Gold 2009-2010.It […]
Interview with Miss Black & Gold 2009-2010
Valencia A. Chaffold was crowned Miss Black and Gold 2009-10 on Nov. 5. She also earned the talent, Miss Congeniality and swimwear titles. Misty L. Powell earned the Miss Black title (1st runner-up), and Saskia Frederick is Miss Gold (2nd runner-up). Powell also won the evening wear and day wear […]
Pogue named Interim President of Grambling State University
Baton Rouge, LA.—-The Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System today appointed Frank G. Pogue to serve as Interim President of Grambling State University. Pogue, President Emeritus of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and a higher education consultant, was recommended by UL System President Randy Moffett.”While searching for the […]
Locals commemorate Veterans Day
Local veterans were honored in a program Wednesday at the Grambling Community Center. The veterans gathered there talked about their experiences, recalling how even now they get emotional. Dr. Lamore Carter, who was drafted at 18, said he feels “blessed” that he was able to serve the nation. “Every Veterans […]
English department combines hip-hop and Chaucer
With the assistance of slapstick humor, several English students, a few professors and a hip-hop musician, the auditorium in Woodson was transformed to present “The Miller’s Tale” during Tuesday’s convocation hours. The story is the second in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales.” It speaks on relationships, love, sex, sanity and […]
Interracial Dating
Interracial love is taking the world by storm. Census data conveys that the prevalence of interracial marriage is increasing. With the election of a biracial president, Barack Obama, many hoped that race would become irrelevant. Unfortunately, this is not the case. As evidenced by former Louisiana justice Keith Bardwell’s resignation […]
“I’m gon’ get me a white boy
#8220;You have the most beautiful brown skin,” a Black man once told me. Of course I believed him, but I have always wondered if other men felt that way. I wondered how Puerto Rican, Asian or Anglo-Saxon men viewed me. I have never dated outside of this wonderful ethnicity we […]
Crowd gets a pleasing concert
Despite a less than crowded audience, the Men’s Gymnasium was scattered with young ladies and a few guys waiting to see the acts lined up for the night.Comedian Rudy Rush graced the campus once again but this time as the MC. Before the antsy crowd could enjoy the headliners, Day […]
On time talent at GSU
On Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. in T.H Harris Auditorium, students came to support their peers participating in the Homecoming Talent Show. There were students who sang, danced, and even rapped. As students of Grambling State University sat down eagerly waiting for the Talent Show to start, DJ Tagman played […]