Mt. Olive Baptist Church of Grambling sponsored a black history program on Sunday, Feb. 24. “A Black History Celebration Honoring our Past, Present and Our Future Leaders of America” was the theme for the program. The guest speaker was Caldwell Dunn, and the guest choir was Zion Hill Baptist Church. The program began with praise […]
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Deadline nears to apply for Teachers for Africa Program
Feb. 28 is the deadline for educators who wish to spend one academic year helping to improve the quality of education in Africa.The International Founda-tion for Education and Self-Help invites applications from schoolteachers, college and university professors and school administrators Since 1992, more than 1,000 American teacher-trainers have been recruited and assigned to African teacher-training […]
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‘Lyrical Quest’ gives students voice
Are you looking for a place to express your artistic talent? Lyrical Quest is the spot for you. As 11 students from across the globe came together, they all had one thing in common and that was their love for poetry. It began with a phone call and ambition when two former members of The […]
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History of GSU’s fight song
The Grambling Fight Song Grew out of a class project, where Conrad Hutchinson was a student at Vandercook School of Music in Chicago.Charles Young, who was band director of Grambling Lab High School, was roommates with Conrad Hutchinson As a class project, they were instructed to write a fight song. The song was so inspiring, […]
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‘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. The so-called leaders of the […]
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2.21 Campus Briefs
Marrow Donor Drive set Friday in Favrot Student Union at GSU Grambling State will be the site of a Marrow Donor Drive from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday in Favrot Student Union. Those interested in joining the Marrow Donor Registry must be between the ages of 18 and 60, meet certain health guidelines and […]
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‘Conception’ a story of survival
Author of the award-winning book Upstate Kalisha Buckhanon is back with the release of her second novel Conception winner of the Terry McMillan Young Author Award.Conception tells the story of 15-year-old Shivana, a teenager growing up surrounded by poverty, and depression on the South Side of Chicago in the early 90s. Like so many young […]
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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 non-violent resistance, and Malcolm X, […]
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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 Black history. Not saying that […]
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Former Grambling State University employee remembered
Funeral services for Dorothy Ann Jackson Ashford of Grambling will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Christ Temple Baptist Church, 7349 Highway 80, in Grambling. Mrs. Ashford died Monday at Willis Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport. She was born on July 20, 1952 in Simsboro, to Lorine and Zelma Jackson. On December 8, 1969, […]