Imagine Joe Montana or Troy Aikman having the banners pulled down and the rings confiscated. Picture Roger Clemens being hounded by steroid allegations.Though minorities – Black folks in particular – have turned a deaf ear to the game of baseball, the game has a storied history. And in that history, […]
Author: Kevin White
2.28 20 Questions
1. Why are there so many hooded miscreants walking around?2. Who else think on-campus Internet is worse than dial-up? 3. Who else is tired of the Obama/Clinton lovefest? 4. Can we possibly fast forward to November? 5. Did you know Women’s History Month starts next week? 6. Does that mean […]
Word Of The Week
This week’s word(s) is Hakuna Matata. “It’s a problem free philosophy…” With mid-terms next week, many of you will be stressing out. Don’t worry about a thing. Study hard and do your best. That’s all you can do. As far as your personal life, live today like it’s your last. […]
Grambling High Kittens advance to quarterfinal playoffs
It may be Michael Lyons’ 30th and final season of coaching Grambling High School, but the results so far are about the same, the Kittens still continue to have success under the legendary head coach.The Kittens reached the quarterfinal round by beating Bernice 65-63 at home Tuesday night. Grambling High […]
GSU attends FCA Retreat
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Regarded as one of the best
Grambling State alumna Patricia Cage-Bibbs is regarded as one of the top women’s basketball coaches in the country today. During her 13 years at GSU, she energized a struggling program and made the women’s basketball program one the best in the Southwestern Athletic Conference.Bibbs got her first job coaching in […]
Cut Coach Ponton some slack
The GSU women’s basketball team has had a season they would like to forget. They are 1-23 (eight losses by 20 or more points) and have not won a game in 110 days. This is a rebuilding year for David “Rusty” Ponton’s basketball team. He lost four of his five […]
Bush says noose displays offensive
President Bush said Tuesday that recent displays of nooses are disturbing and indicate that some Americans may be losing sight of the suffering that Blacks have endured across the nation.”The era of rampant lynching is a shameful chapter in American history,” Bush said at a Black History Month event at […]
A member of the Grambling family well remembered
Mrs. Gloria Beard-Horton was born to James Beard and Elnora Bradford Beard of Hosston, the eldest of three girls. After graduating from high school in 1966, she attended Southern University, Baton Rouge, from 1966-1968. Mrs. Horton married in 1969 and went to Buffalo with her husband William Horton, as he […]
GSU’s Arhin an example for others
An article presented by Aetna: 2003 African American History Calendar entitled “Black Nurses – A Historical Perspective,” by M. Elizabeth Carnegie, DPA, RN, FAAN, produced remarkable evidence of the impact and contributions of African Americans to the nursing profession from approximately 1783 until present day. Black students considering a career […]