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Ripon, CA – Walter Hawkins’, the Grammy Award-winning gospel singer/composer and pastor of Oakland’s Love Center Church, funeral services will be held July 21 at 11 a.m. at the Paramount Theater.Hawkins died July 11th at his home in Ripon. For the last two years, Hawkins battlled pancreatic cancer. He was 61 years old. During the […]

The GSU Student Government Association hosted an Independence Day barbecue on July 4 in the quad. The event was an opportunity for fun, sun, music and second servings of JJ’s Cajun Kitchen grub with community members. While summer session students, friends and faculty attended, so did about 25 high school students in the High Ability […]

Your doctor could be drunk, addicted to drugs or outright incompetent, but other physicians may not blow the whistle.A new survey finds that many American physicians fail to report troubled colleagues to authorities, believing that someone else will take care of it, that nothing will happen if they act or that they could be targeted […]

Dr. Paul Bryant is the new vice president of enrollment management and retention. The Elizabeth City, N.C., native was the vice president of student affairs at Delaware State University before coming to Grambling State. Dr. Bryant said he doesn’t believe there are any secrets to maintaining healthy enrollment and retention. Nearly 5,000 students were enrolled […]

After 25 years of production and numerous gossip filled celebrity interviews, Oprah Winfrey decided to throw in the towel. Her last day of the show will be September 9, 2011.Winfrey expressed how much the show means to her and why she has decided to leave during the regularly scheduled broadcasting time of The Oprah Winfrey […]

Football will be the primary focus when Grambling State University honors its latest group of athletic legends later this month.?? A total of 15 individuals who have made a major impact on the school’s sports history will be inducted into the GSU Legends Hall of Fame at the Monroe Civic Center on July 17.??Ceremonies will […]

Funeral services were held for Louise Arrington Williams, longtime Grambling resident, Tuesday at the New Rocky Valley Baptist Church. Mrs. Williams was remembered mostly for her kindness. “She will be wearing animal print, high heel boots, fur and a hat – crooked – and wearing Mary Kay (cosmetics). She loved Mary Kay.” That was the […]

Black women experience body image blues, too. A recent interview in Harper’s Bazaar showed that tennis star Serena Williams, who helped bring stacked back to mainstream, wrestled with her shape. To an extent, it seems she still does. Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Hudson, Tocarra and countless other women of color provide images which counter the […]

The former vice president for finance and administration Daarel Burnette was released by the administration.An e-mail from President Dr. Frank G. Pogue confirmed that Burnette was replaced by Leon Sanders, who also is experienced in this position. Sanders’ current position is interim vice president for finance and administration. A nationwide search for a permanent vice […]