The on-the-court basketball product has been awful. Washington takes over a team that has won a total of 16 games the past two seasons and has only had a .500 five times in the past 23 seasons. Last year the team was 6-23, which included an abysmal 4-14 conference record. […]

#8220;The blacker the college, the sweeter the knowledge.” During invocation at the Cotton Bowl, ripples of laughter emanated mid-prayer as a pastor praised HBCUs and stressed the necessity of Black higher education avenues.In the midst of today’s Black president era, Black advocacy seems dated to some. However, race issues still […]

Yes, we all know when HBCUs get together there is bound to be a clash of crazy fashion attempts. But you would think when it rained that students would not go as hard. Wrong! Many of the clothing styles that I saw Saturday at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas couldn’t […]

Pushing his way through the pack and gaining positive yards aren’t strenuous tasks for GSU running back Frank Warren. Warren is second in the SWAC conference in rushing yards, averaging 104 yards per game. The 6 foot, 200 pound junior running back worked hard during the off season and now […]

We lined up and walked from our classroom to the bust of a man that sits next to a red brick building, looked at him with reverence and asked our teacher,”Whose head is that and where is the rest of him?”The children who asked were my classmates and I when […]

To assume progress comes with the passing of a baton is conjecture operating at its optimum. In fact, assured progress is not a natural progression unless serious standards are implemented to guarantee mastery is confirmed and continuous. That’s what came to mind as I watched a travesty in Jackson, Mississippi […]

Even babies bumped in a stroller at the Sumthin’ Serious Ent. audition Tuesday. A little boy waved his lollipop to the bass, bounced his boots and grinned at a female duo that performed Serious choreography they learned the previous day.Rap reverberated throughout Tatum Complex (beside Subway) as aspiring dancers synchronized […]

Associate Professor Gregory Battle of the Department of Mathematics was awarded a 2009 NASA Science & Technology Institute’s Faculty Fellowship by the United Negro College Fund Special Programs (UNCF-SP). Dr. Battle’s research in the programming of air traffic flow management at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., […]