Author: Kobe Jackson

Arts

‘Work Work Don’t Stop’, even for Covid

Grambling State is a university famous for its DJs and the DJ Twinz have always had an impact not just in Grambling, but all over.  2020 has not been a great year for anybody in the college environment at Grambling State University due to the coronavirus.  Missing in the campus […]

News

WhoMadeMeDoIt reboots to adapt to pandemic

In the wake of COVID-19, local businesses and companies, such as Grambling’s WhoMadeMeDoIt, have been forced to change the way they operate in order to stay in business. WhoMadeMeDoIt's location right next to GSU’s campus resulted in a steep decline in business early on this year after all students were […]

Features

Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa race riot

What the Tulsa, Oklahoma, neighborhood of Greenwood, widely known as the Black Wall Street, looked like before and after the events of May 30-June 1, 1921. Oklahoma Historical Society/Courtesy photo Newspaper coverage following the destruction of what The Tulsa World called “Little Africa”. Estimates of the number of dead ranged […]