The Prairie View A&M Panther football program put another notch into their win column with a convincing 34-7 road victory over SWAC -west conference rival Arkansas Pine-Bluff. The Panthers beat the Golden Lions for the first time since a 35-16 victory in 2001. The Panthers jumped onto the scoreboard when […]

(AP) – HOUSTON – On a bridge over Buffalo Bayou, well-heeled Houstonians celebrated the public-private partnership responsible for transforming the concrete-lined swamp leading into downtown into a landscaped waterway.Mayor Bill White thanked the project’s three lead entrepreneurs and then tallied the city’s recent accomplishments: about 150,000 new residents from Hurricane […]

Years have passed, yet the diploma hangs perfectly centered behind my chair and the graduation ring sits proudly atop my finger…constant reminders of the formative years I spent as an undergraduate. For the record, I did not attend Prairie View A&M University but I did attend an HBCU that provided […]

Trichomoniasis is caused by a single-celled protozoan parasite, Trichomonas vaginalis.Trichomonas is the most common curable sexually transmitted disease in young, sexually active women. An estimated 7.4 million new cases occur each year in women and men (Centers for Disease Control). The most common site of infection in women is the […]

The game time for Prairie View A&M University’s football contest against Jackson State University on Saturday, Nov. 12, has been moved up to 1 p.m. to accommodate a national television broadcast on ESPNU. The game, originally scheduled for 2 p.m., has also been designated as “Community Day.”Anyone who is a […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) _ Omaha has given $30,000 from a federal Community Development Block Grant to a project that would mark the birth site of Malcolm X, but the $680,000 proposal is still looking for help.The Malcolm X Memorial Foundation wants to build a museum, an amphitheater and a community […]

Let me start off by saying that I have the utmost respect for all Greek and non-Greek organizations but I think the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha were not given their due respect and time to shine during last week’s homecoming stepshow. The fact that a fight took place while […]

Prairie View A&M University sophomore Brittany Hamilton recorded a second place finish and two other PVAMU runners recorded top 10 finishes as the Lady Panther cross country team posted a third place mark in the 2005 SWAC Cross Country Championships held on the campus of Prairie View.Hamilton, a sophomore from […]

DETROIT (AP) – Rosa Parks’ body has returned to the city she called home, with thousands waiting in a line more than a quarter-mile long to pay their final respects to the late civil rights leader. Parks was 92 when she died Oct. 24 in Detroit. She lay in honor […]

November is National Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. Within the United States cancer of the pancreas is the fourth leading cause of cancer death. This year approximately 32 thousand Americans will die from this disease. This disease is not only common among whites but blacks as well and very difficult to […]