The Wiley College A Cappella Choir, under the direction of Stephen L. Hays will be performing at 3 p.m. Sunday at the New Rocky Valley Baptist Church in Grambling, as part of the church’s Black History Month celebration. The choir has a rich history of singers and composers dating back […]
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TB: What does Black History mean to you?
Chantal BrownFreshmanFontana, CalifThe way I feel about black history is you must know your past to know where you been.Amelia EvansFreshmanChicagoThe way I feel about black history is it is important to me because you can learn all the great achievements our people have done over the years. Michael BowdenRustonFreshmanBlack […]
Let’s kill Black History Month
It’s the month I hate the most. Yep. I said it. I hate Black History Month. It’s kind of pointless these days. I really don’t see the purpose of it.To me, it’s like every other month. I get a holiday off from school, and it’s business like usual. I’m a […]
Rising gas prices, falling dollar value driving me toward drastic measures
As I’m leaving my apartment complex in Ruston, I glance down at the gas meter. Great. I have to get gas, so I knew I was about to take a hit. Yet, I didn’t expect to see a $3.09 gallon gas tag on the sign.As I’m filling up the tank, […]
Why do we celebrate Black history?
Our Black heritage is rooted so deep in tradition, culture, and the struggle for equality and freedom. For so long “Black folk” were considered to be stupid, inferior to Whites, and unable to read or write.We have come so far as a race because we were once followers by force, […]
We should remember our Black history
Black History Month is fading fast. As we come closer and closer toward the end of the first decade of the twenty first century, our past Black leaders are fading with it.I remember in the early 90s when I was a kid, there were parades, plays, programs, etc focusing on […]
‘We Shall Overcome’ one day, hopefully
We the people, 12.4% of the United States population have come a long way from bondage, movements in the 1960s to now. Whatever position that seems to be, members in the Black community argue that since the days when we struggled for freedom, rights, and respect, we really haven’t progressed. […]
Six-credit trip to Costa Rica planned
The Department of Foreign Languages, as part of its Spanish Summer 2008 Program, is organizing a trip to Costa Rica from June 2-28 that will be worth six credit hours at GSU.The trip to the “Land of Paradise” includes round-trip airfare, 11 excursions, room and board (breakfast and dinner with […]
Alumni chapter presidents gather to discuss GSU’s direction, fundraising
Alumni chapter presidents gathered on Feb. 9 to discuss upcoming events that will take place on the campus of GSU. Those attending the meeting were: Kevin Walk, Douglas A. Williams Chapter, Houston; Nathaniel Washington, Birmingham (Ala.) Alumni Chapter; Thomas Jones Jr., Mansfield-DeSoto Parish Alumni Chapter; Janice Riggs, Rapides Parish Alumni […]
Living the dream
Thurgood Marshall was America’s leading radical. He led a civil rights revolution in the 20th century that forever changed the landscape of American society. But he is the least well known of the three leading black figures of this century. Martin Luther King Jr., with his preaching’s of love and […]