Category: Arts

Grambling State University student by day, Picasso at night describes Jared Johnnie, 24, a senior engineer major from Lafayette. The low-profile artist was born into an artistic family, and did not start to draw until the first grade “because (of) somebody called Benji.”  Benji was a kid in Johnnie’s first grade class who told him […]

Harold Ellis Clark of Gretna has been named one of two finalists for the 2013 Stanley Drama Award for his play, “Tour Detour.” He will be honored at a reception on March 18 at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South in New York amid last year’s Stanley Drama finalist and others in his field. The […]

“My hair too nappy but I’m happy/reminiscing on the days when the rich kids laughed at me,” raps Williams on his personal reflection song, ‘Kite’. Terry’s first music project is about isolating, feeling disconnected and touches on the idea of socially recoiling, and the positives and negatives that come with his emotions.  The 8 track […]

Grambling alumna Blythe Dennis flooded students’ social media timelines when she dropped her first mixtape titled, “Covers: Vol. 1,” on Feb. 14.  The 11-track mixtape is composed of Blythe’s favorite artists that she transformed into her own taste of jazz and soul. When you first press play, the chances of you pressing “next” are slim […]

  Miss Senior Carmen Reeves hosted ‘Battle of the Sexes’: King vs Queens part two on Monday, and it allowed her to get a better understanding of how people mentally analyze, and perceive the opposite sex.  “I wanted to hear out some of the opinions of the students hear at Grambling State University.” Said Reeves, […]

Lynn Nottage’s Crumbs from the Table of Joy premiered Tuesday night to a sparse but  enthusiastic audience in the Floyd L. Sandle Theatre in the Conrad Hutchinson Performing Arts Center. Directed by assistant professor Karl V. Norman, the two-act play is set in 1950s New York and focuses on widower Godfrey Crumb, who is played […]

Everyone knows the saying, “Behind every great man, is a great woman.” Wives of Civil Rights leaders, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Min. Malcolm X are no different.  Lifetime’s Betty & Coretta, starring Angela Bassett and Mary J. Blige, brought that to life. King and Shabazz made history as the wives behind two powerful […]