The Gramblinite
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Life is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you’re going to get. But with Paula Juanice Watts-Hicks, the Grambling family got one of the best pieces in the box. Paula attended Jasper Henderson Elementary School and Chatham High School where she graduated as salutatorian. Paula was […]
The fees out-of-state students have to pay is causing some of them to leave their institutions in exchange for a job or a college closer to home. But going back home is Devanny Byrd’s last resort, even after financial aid did not cover the fees for the Birmingham, […]
Harold Ellis Clark of Gretna has been named one of two finalists for the 2013 Stanley Drama Award for his play, “Tour Detour.” He will be honored at a reception on March 18 at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South in New York amid last year’s Stanley Drama finalist and […]
The Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Grambling State University is pleased to announce its final stage production of the 2012-2013 season, ‘Medea’, by the classical Greek playwright, Euripides. Set in its original form, this tragic Greek tale is of love, passion and vengeance. Come experience a classic […]
The Earl Lester Cole Honors College continued its lecture seminars with two guest speakers from Grambling State University’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction on Monday. Associate Professor Dr. Elaine Foster, and Dr. Loretta Jaggers enlightened the audience about GSU’s LA GEAR UP program. LA GEAR UP, which stands for Louisiana […]
The 45th Annual Calendar Girl Pageant is slated for Saturday, March 16 at 7 p.m. in the T.H. Harris Auditorium on the Grambling State University campus. The theme is “Around the World We Go…On Tiger Airlines Flight 45!” The attire is semi-formal. There are six young ladies vying for […]
Grambling State University student David Freeman served as the guest speaker for New Rocky Valley Baptist Church’s College Day. “Keeping the Legacy and Passing on the Tradition” was the title of Freeman’s speech. He said that the image of the black culture is one of a dying breed, especially since […]
In an ever-changing world where things are subject to transform at any moment has a work’s echo of truth, literary or aesthetic rang so loud through the ages. This effort I am alluding to is that of W.E.B. Dubois in his collection of essays known as The Souls of […]
Grambling State University student by day, Picasso at night describes Jared Johnnie, 24, a senior engineer major from Lafayette. The low-profile artist was born into an artistic family, and did not start to draw until the first grade “because (of) somebody called Benji.” Benji was a kid in Johnnie’s first […]
Here at Grambling State University, coach Patricia Cage-Bibbs has won six tournament titles. Now in her first season back as the head coach for the Lady Tigers, she has an opportunity to capture her seventh. Despite a disappointing overall record of 8-22 in the regular season, Bibbs is confident […]