ORLANDO, Fla. – The number of black athletes getting diplomas across all NCAA Division I sports jumped 24 percentage points from 1984 to 2004, marking big gains for a demographic that once recorded just 35 percent graduation success, according to a study released Thursday.Black athletes were at least 15 percent […]

Prairie View A&M University head women’s basketball coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke announced the signing of two more prepsters to national letters of intent for the 2006-07 school year. Joining the Lady Panthers for the upcoming season are Whitney Ligons and Shakeya Johns.Ligons, who stands 6-3, will play both center and power […]

1. Which Alpha got his letters via Federal Express? 2. When are the SGA presidents going to stop playing paper- rock- paper? 3. Which new Alpha was making announcements while caravaning? 4. Shouldn’t he have been linked up and spitting out history? 5. How many people have not realized yet […]

Perfect skin, mocha eyes, hair of a goddess, and her smell of the freshest flowers, can only begin to describe the magnificence of her, my first crush. No matter the duration of time passed or number of years you have grown in age one never forgets their first crush, however […]

A while back a guy friend of mine said what makes a female sexy is her mind. Of course, I laughed and told him that he could not possibly be serious! Sarcastically, I questioned how a complete stranger, without speaking to me, could just look at me, and “see” this […]

On Tuesday April 9, dozens of students gathered in the University College Auditorium to hear what has been explained as “The Real Tea”. Encompassing everything from bisexuality and transgender to questioning whether or not your partner is gay was examined in an open conversation with Prairie View’s own Terrance Gilbert. […]

Students at North Carolina Central University and Duke University have a lot to say about the role of the accuser’s profession in the events that led to accusations of rape against members of the Duke University lacrosse team.The accuser is a North Carolina Central student, a 27-year-old mother of two […]

When Hurricane Katrina forced junior Special Kirk out of Dillard University last August, he searched for options to finish the semester. “I didn’t want to fall behind,” he said. “I wanted to stay on pace and graduate.”He found a solution in the Sloan Semester, an online education experiment that gave […]

NEW YORK (AP) – The Rev. Philip Saywrayne speaks with a Southern drawl, tinged with the African accent of his native tribe in Liberia.On a sunny Sunday morning, his voice is steeped in sorrow as he remembers the 14-year civil war that desecrated a nation founded by freed American slaves […]

The other day I was sitting outside the library and I overheard a conversation about a guy who got his roommate’s girlfriend pregnant. The guy was distraught and did not know what to do. For the past three months, he and his roommate’s girlfriend had been messing around and now […]