Author: KEVIN KEISE

Sports

GSU’s 1961 men’s basketball team finally gets rings

  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, […]

Uncategorized

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 […]

Sports

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.  […]

Opinion

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 […]

Opinion

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 […]

Features

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 […]

Features

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 […]

Arts

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 […]

Arts

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 […]

Arts

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 […]