From the stage of the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center at the second-annual Platform Summit, held October 24-26, 2014 on the campus of Morehouse College,…
The family of Robert Champion, the drum major for the Florida A&M who was hazed to death back in 2011, has finally received some justice.…
After a yearlong penalty, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University is in the clear. According to reports, a regional accrediting organization voted to end the school’s…
A 24-year-old former FAMU football player was shot and killed by the police after surviving a car crash and seeking help. Jonathan Ferrell crashed his…
The famed Florida A&M University marching band the Marching 100 is back from a nearly two-year suspension following the hazing death of drum major Robert…
Editor’s note: HBCU’s are an integral part of black culture. This it the first in a series of occasional features about HBCU football written by…
(CNN) — Florida A&M University, under fire in the hazing death of a drum major and over its finances, was put on probation for one…
With all the fallout from the hazing death of a young drum major at Florida A&M University last month, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) announced today that she will introduce a federal anti-hazing bill. Congress is currently on recess and will not take up the measure until after the New Year. SEE ALSO: Obama To Bomb […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The fired director of Florida A&M’s famed “Marching 100” band said he repeatedly warned university leaders over two decades about the dangers of hazing and that he’s been made the scapegoat for a band member’s death in which the practice is suspected. Julian White, 71, said he suspended 26 band members […]
Robert Champion, 26, was found unresponsive in a parked bus in front of a hotel in Orlando, Florida. The tragedy occurred after FAMU’s (Florida A&M)…
