Category: Features

For the last 52 years, we have celebrated the accomplishments of African American men and women from the past who used their knowledge, talents, or voice to impact our world and shape our future. Some of those accomplishments include innovations in history, science, medicine, and music.   Scott Joplin was such an innovator. He was an […]

Kayla Mosby is a Baltimore native and junior here at GSU who is making strides to take the business she began in high school  to another level.   “In the middle of my junior year of high school, I was depressed, so I decided to learn something new. I feel in love with doing makeup on […]

Grambling State junior Vanderbilt Thompson, a biology major from  Maricopa, Arizona, is thriving in multiple leadership roles.  Thompson currently holds several leadership positions at GSU. He is the vice president of his fraternity Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Xi Chapter. “It’s a very demanding role,” Thompson said. “As any leadership role would be, it comes […]

Phillis Wheatley, a poetess and change agent, was one of the first African Americans to publish a book while enslaved and was the second woman to ever had published a book during the 1700s.  She was the standard. Wheatley set the standard for what could be produced from a Black person who obtained an education, […]

On June 3, 1904, Charles Richard Drew was born in Washington, D.C. He was surrounded by the poverty and hopelessness of the black community.  At the close of the civil war, blacks were promised freedom, but instead, they were imposed in Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws enforced poor schools, outdated books, separate hospitals, […]

The time is finally here where we are celebrating the most historical and remarkable memories of our history. It’s Black History Month and this month we are celebrating some of Grambling’s history. Conrad R. Hutchinson Jr., better known as the “Prof” was known for his contribution to the World Famed Band.  Hutchinson’s contributions allowed Grambling […]

On May 17, 1893, Fredrick McKinley Jones was born in Covington, Kentucky. He was a dedicated black inventor who was awarded more than 61 patents. Jones had an Irish father and a black mother,  who both died before he reached age 10. Father Ryan, a Catholic priest, took him in and enrolled him in elementary […]

Araminta Ross. “Moses of her people.” General Tubman. These are only a few of the many names given to the revolutionary we call Harriet Tubman.  A woman of strength and resilience, Harriet was enslaved, escaped, and as many know helped hundreds of others gain their freedom, too. She left behind a legacy of defying the […]

He introduced himself onto the SWAC athletics scene in an emphatic fashion by winning the 200-meter race at the recently held Vulcan Invitational in Birmingham. Not only did he win but his time put him in the top 10 fastest times by a freshman and top 45 in the country. It came as no surprise […]