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 […]
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Thousands pay respects to Rosa Parks in Detroit
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 […]
Lady Panthers cross country team finishes third in SWAC
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 […]
Student angered by judging, behavior at stepshow
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 […]
Malcolm X site project gets federal grant through Omaha
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 […]
Do I look overweight?
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 65 percent of U.S. adults aged 20 years and older are either overweight or obese, and approximately 30 percent of adults are obese. Conditions related to being overweight contribute to 300,000 deaths each […]
Where architecture meets art
Architecture is an art and a science. So it is fitting that Architecture and Art at Prairie View A&M University find themselves together in a new facility that is the talk of the campus.Faculty, students, staff, and visitors have offered their opinion regarding this state-of-the-art facility and its provocative and […]
Black Greek organizations: the divine nine
Black Greek letter organizations are well known among many college campuses and around the world.The nine Pan-Hellenic organizations, also known as the “divine nine,” include Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Omega […]
Where are the advocates for PV?
How history manages to repeat itself is astounding. Actually, it isn’t so astounding if you understand the number that has been done on the minds of African Americans in this country. Willie Lynch did, indeed, mastermind the perfect crime. We are now a people who sit and listen to the […]
Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, dead at 92
DETROIT (AP) – Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no. At the time, she couldn’t have known it would secure her a […]