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The Delta Iota Chapter Deltas of Grambling State University are back and moving forward. The rebirth of the legendary sorority’s local chapter is in its beginning stages. Grambling’s Deltas hadn’t probated in five years. That changed Tuesday night. The event revealed the 48 initiates. The sorors expressed joy, love, and relief. Many said that this […]

Grambling State University alumnus Henry Whitehorn has been nominated by President Barack Obama as the U.S. Marshal in the Western District of Louisiana.U.S. Sen. Mary L. Landrieu, who recommended Whitehorn for the position last August, related, “Chief Whitehorn has had an outstanding career in public service in Louisiana, and he is beloved in the Western […]

In such perilous and difficult times, we can concur that our troubling youth can be our greatest concern. The ones who are responsible for turning it around do not lie with government, but the church community.Servants of God must analyze exactly what constitutes the plight and downfalls of our young people. Our young men are […]

As a child I thought my Dad was loony. Whenever it was his night to cook, my siblings and I asked what was for dinner only to be given random responses like camel humps, bird pectin and monkey’s brain. When he left the house without us it was usually to see a man about a […]

Almost seven months after taking over the interim helm of the program, Bobby Washington has been named the tenth men’s head basketball coach at Grambling State University as announced by GSU Athletic Director Lin Dawson.In his inaugural campaign Washington returned Grambling to the Southwestern Athletic Conference tournamentfor the first time in two years where the […]

The Black Team came out victorious in the Annual Black & Gold Spring Football Game held Saturday in Tiger Stadium.Spring games are normally exhibition games in which coaches evaluate what younger players have learned playing in the system so far, while the veterans of the team are refreshing their skills as the summer approaches for […]

The first decade of the 21st century has radically transformed the balance of economic and political power of the world. Amid thousands of reports, surveys, and studies, one trend is very clear – we are moving to a very different world -a world where the West is not going to be the center of world […]

On April 15, Solange Nessa Sayers, a native of the West Indies in St. Lucia, was announced as Miss Grambling State University 2010-2011 by a sweeping majority of student body votes. Unlike the contenders and their campaign managers resting in their seats in Grambling Hall, waiting to hear the results, Sayers was too nervous to […]

“She was just a kind person, very soft spoken, and pleasant. She was very knowledge and was a good writer.”– Gwendalyn “Veleta” Duplantier Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority “Last thing I remember about her and I was on my way to my car leaving church and she saw me and said ‘hello roommate I […]

“You left a legacy,” said one of Mary Hobdy’s admirers. Just like her husband, she was extremely dedicated to her job and in return she received love and admiration from many people. Hobdy was a secretary at Grambling State for 43 years. She grew up in a segragated area of Misissippi in a town called […]