After waiting half a century, Grambling State University’s 1961 men’s basketball team received championship-quality rings for being crowned National Athletic Intercollegiate Association champions. On Saturday afternoon, just before the G-Men took the field to battle Virginia University of Lynchburg at its homecoming football game, eight of the 13-member team, […]
Author: KEVIN KEISE
Queens Speak
The psychological hang up in the mind set of Black people, has caused not only a few years but yet centuries of division between various Black ethnic groups. Psychological, pertains to the mental state of mind while the hang up is introduced on the distorted image many Black people […]
Grambling, ‘we got one’
Grambling State University President Dr. Frank G. Pogue says that the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office has given the university a clean, effective and efficient annual audit for the period ending June 30, 2012. […]
Domestic violence survivor expresses her story
For seven years I loved a man I called my husband. I loved my husband unconditionally. I allowed myself to be the wife the Bible says I am suppose to be. You know; the wife who submits to her husband, honors him, respects him, listens to him, obey him […]
Queens Speak
Unity in the Black community is a rarity today here in America. We here slang like my “brotha” my “sista”, but do we really know the meaning of the terms? Regardless, we have lost the true meaning of brotherhood and sisterhood. Social status does play a big part in […]
Zetas show their sporty side; Alphas go old school
The line on Saturday to enter Grambling State University’s T.H. Harris Auditorium stretched down Main Street. As students, alumni and faculty flocked to park take in one of the last homecoming events- The Greek Step Show. “I expect the GSU students to put on an awesome show, to represent […]
Spotlight on Grambling alumni at Homecoming
“When people speak Grambling, they speak of a name that is above other universities because of tradition,” said Valvasti Williams Jr., a member of the class of 1985. When you think of Grambling you think of tradition, you think of all the people before who opened the doors and […]
Lamar releases a masterpiece of storytelling
Enter Kendrick Lamar. The Compton, California native has a knack for lyricism and song creation that’s similar to the great emcees like Nas or Jay-Z. On his major debut, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Lamar defies most of his peers with an album that be will be remembered long after […]
Art of the week
“Mostly Skyz” is a collection of photographs taken mainly around the campus of Grambling State University. The theme of Terrence C. William’s II exhibition focuses on unique ability to observe or dismiss our surroundings. The meaning behind these vistas began in Riverside County California, where Williams lived until […]
Ready or not, here comes Capo Young
Up and coming rapper Capo Young, Las Vegas native, says that place doesn’t matter to him much. Capo Young was born Dec. 29, 1990 in Hill Side Las Vegas. He started his music career by writing poetry, because it was the only way he could truly express himself. When […]