Former Grambling State University standout quarterback Doug Williams will receive the 2013 Davey O’Brien Legends Award for his outstanding contributions to the game of football both on and off the field. The award will be presented to Williams at the 37th Annual Davey O’Brien Awards Dinner on Feb. 17 in […]

Four-year higher education institution budgets at Grambling State University, Louisiana Tech University and other institutions have been cut twice each year in the last several years, so Gov. Bobby Jindal made a lot of people happy with his big announcement Tuesday. During an afternoon news conference at the LSU Business […]

Alana Belton brought a message of hope to the students of Grambling State University as she spoke at a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on Monday. “It’s not enough for us to keep dreaming, we have to start living,” Belton told more than 200 in the audience. Joining the students […]

Grambling State University is proud to announce that Northern Louisiana’s “best kept secret” will strut its stuff to state legislators in the state’s capitol. On March 18, the prestigious and renowned university will have its own day in the central part of the Sportsman’s Paradise at the State Capitol in […]

If you were to look in the book of Guinness Book of World Records, you’ll find all types of interesting achievements, from Dubai crushing the largest fireworks display world record with 479,651 fireworks, to Tillman, the English Bulldog covering a 100 meter stretch of level car park in just 19.678 […]

When 18-year-old freshman Auset Champion was six months pregnant she went to the doctor for a regular ultrasound scan. During the screening, the doctor discovered one baby, which was normal. Then the doctor discovered another baby, so for a split second she though she was having twins, which is not […]

A legislator for more than a decade, Gallot is planning a return to his first love.  Lincoln Parish attorney and State Sen. Rick Gallot recently stated that he plans to run for judge  in the 3rd Judicial District in the fall of this year. Law has always been Gallot’s passion, […]

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is considered one of the greatest advocates for civil rights. He is also seen as the personification of the greatness that can be produced from an HBCU. As a Morehouse graduate, his life is proof that the need for HBCUs in the African-American community is […]

When typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines recently, it brought back memories for Reller Jones, criminal justice professor at Grambling State University. Ity was one of the strongest storms in the world when it hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines on Nov. 8.. “My husband and I were previously stationed […]

The statistics for African-American males attending college is lower than 3.5 percent being that 3.5 is the percentage for all African-Americans attending college, which includes males and females, according to metrostatecue.org. One attribution to that statistic could be from funding, seeing that 50 percent of African-American children live below the […]