The Gramblinite
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Grambling State University has launched a new dining program with basketball legend Magic Johnson’s food service provider SodexoMAGIC. SodexoMAGIC is replacing Aramark Corporation as the campus’s food service provider after Aramark’s contract ended on June 30. Jovan Hackley, Communications Director for Grambling State University, said the difference between Aramark and […]
The end of the season for Johnathon Sawyer, a sprinter on Grambling State’s track team who has turned heads since his first day on campus, came in May. Sawyer, a native of Austin Texas, runs the 400 meter dash for the GSU track and field team. This season he was […]
Some of the most impactful players in the NFL’s history were not drafted. Tony Romo. Kurt Warner. James Harrison. Jason Peters. All of these household names were not even selected in the draft. So for recent GSU players like record holding kicker Mark Orozco and linebacker De’Arius Christmas, not being […]
Outside of serving the best chicken in Grambling, co-founder of Who Made Me Do It Wings & Po Boys, Michael Barnes has another interesting talent he recently displayed for his customers and others in the “GramFam” community. Barnes, whose stage name is “Mike B”, performed in front of thousands of […]
Joven Jefe is a Spanish phrase meaning “young boss.” This phrase is also the name of Frederic Green’s up and coming clothing brand. Green, a business major at Grambling State University and native of Tallulah, La., has always lived by this ‘young boss’ mindset. “My father always told me ‘you […]
By now everyone that knows that Grambling State University has been home to many students who have made various contributions to the music industry including Hip-Hop Legend E-40 and R&B Queen Erykah Badu. The contributions continue through the current students as well such as, Houston native and sophomore criminal […]
The end of the Civil War resulted in a dramatic reorganization of society throughout the former Confederacy, including new freedom for the slaves. President Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation and published it on January 1, 1863, but it did not reach Texas for two years. It wasn’t until General […]
When Blacks in Texas heard the news, they alternately sang, danced and prayed. There was much rejoicing and jubilation that their life long prayers had finally been answered. Many of the slaves left their masters immediately upon being freed, in search of family members, economic opportunities or simply because they […]
The fact that it took a Civil War to forcibly put an end to slavery left a bitter legacy that continues to divide American society. Slavery so bankrupted slave owners’ sense of right and wrong that they were willing to die to defend that lifestyle. A slave-holding minority morally corrupted […]