The Gramblinite
Saturday, July 5, 2025
Ariel Williams drives past a Prairie View A&M defender. RAVEN LEDAY/ The Gramblinite The Grambling State University women’s basketball team had a successful stretch over the past week, posting back-to-back wins. TSU vs. GSU Three players scored in double figures as the Lady Tigers triumphed over their opponents, […]
Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond enrolled as freshmen at North Carolina A&T University in the fall of 1959. By Feb. 2, 1960, the photo of the four young men sitting at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, appeared in newspapers across the country. […]
Franklin Nelson To be honest, at some point in our lives we’ve heard or said it! Right? By “It”, I mean the N-word. Whether it’s been heard in the derogatory/racial sense or said in a form of slang, we should all know its loaded history. “N—–” is a divisive […]
Kris Darroux Tupac once said, “Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing; niggas is the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.” The word nigger has been utilized as an emphatically contrary term of scorn for a dark individual since the 18th century. Today […]
ldquo;The N-word” is a euphemism for a known derogatory term that is used to insult and degrade African Americans. The actual term, despite its wounding history, is still used to this day not only as a racial slur but increasingly by African Americans as a general reference to Black people […]
#8211; In the Feb. 14 edition of The Gramblinite, the centerpiece article on the front page was titled “Governor, Secretary of State present $1.2M grant.” This should have read “Governor, Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development present $1.2M grant.” – We also failed to provide Don Pierson’s full title as Secretary […]
Students and city residents attend hypertension seminar discussing the condition that is more common in blacks. Sokunna Yun/GSU Media Bureau Dr. Paul Muntner, Associate Dean for the School of Public Health at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Sokunna Yun/GSU Media Bureau Hypertension, commonly called high blood pressure, is one of […]
Morganfield “N—–” is used loosely on campus. Derived from the pre-Jim Crow period, white people first branded African-born slaves with the term and used it to verbally abuse and belittle them for decades. To many the word is representative of the generations of mistreatment of and insult suffered by African-Americans. […]
South Carolina Legislator (D) and CNN Analyst Bakari Sellers. GLENN LEWIS/GSU Media Bureau CNN Political Commentator and history-making South Carolina Legislator, Bakari Sellers spoke at Grambling State University’s Black History Convocation on Tuesday, Feb. 19. “It’s a privilege, an honor, and every other adjective you can think of to be […]
Have you experienced the struggle of finding a parking spot on campus? Whether it be for class, events or simply grabbing a bite to eat, students, faculty and staff alike have all voiced frustrations about looking for an open spot. The lack of parking spots on campus is […]