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Bowlers miss SWAC tourney

Kayra Carter prepares to bowl at the SWAC round-up. GSU ATHLETICS/Courtesy photo The Grambling State women’s bowling team competed in its final Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) meet of the season during the SWAC East Round-Up.    The Lady Tigers picked up a win over Alabama A&M during the opening day, but […]

Sports

Team effort fuels Lady Tigers’ sweep of TSU, domination of PV

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, […]

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HBCU students play pivotal role

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. […]

Opinion

Why N-word is NOT a problem

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 […]

Opinion

Just say no to the N-word

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 […]

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Corrections/Clarification

#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 […]

Opinion

N-word in higher ed: Should we use it?

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 […]

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‘Silent killer’ hypertension focus of GSU health seminar

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 […]

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Mass Communication to host N-word panel discussion Feb. 26

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. […]

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Political analyst Bakari Sellers: “How far do we have to go?”

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 […]