Vital Information for the NPHC Pan Afrikan Step Show Richard Keith | Staff Writer The past two years at the N.C. State National Pan-Hellenic Step Show, have been years of Alpha reign with the Theta Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. winning first place at the 2011 show, and the Eta Omicron Chapter of [...]
A Recap of the 16th annual AATS Fashion Expose Kierra Leggett | Editor-in-Chief The African American Textile Society (AATS) hosted its 16th annual Fashion Expose, Monday, as a part of the 2013 Pan Afrikan Festival. The theme of this year’s expose was “Foster Fashion, Experience Design…” and sponsors included Belk, Maurice’s, UAB and the Raleigh Paul [...]
DeErricka Green | Staff Writer 1970 was a year of firsts for African Americans at N.C. State: Willie Burden and Charley Young became the first African Americans to receive football scholarships from the University; the first African American Cultural Center, located in the old YMCA building, was formed; and, most appropriate, the first Pan-Afrikan Festival [...]
Kierra Leggett | Editor-in-Chief The African American Textile Society (AATS) is advising everyone to “Stay Fresh” today by purchasing frozen yogurt from Fresh Berry on Hillsborough St. Individuals who display the AATS and Fresh Berry flyer at the time of checkout will have 15 percent of their total purchase donated to the AATS. While the members [...]
Story & Photos By: Kelly Darden Staff Writer Typical professors and members of academia come to campus dressed in collared shirts and ties or skirts and blouses. Dr. Smith-McKoy, Dr. Brookins, and Toni Thorpe, who are all members of NCSU faculty, do not confrom to the standard Western dress codes. They often come to [...]
Shawn Murray| Staff Writer Coming onto the scene with one gold watch, two gold chains, six gold rings like its nothing, Trinidad Jame$ has blown up with his single “All Gold Everything.” Decked out in Versace loafers and a silk shirt, Jame$ has definitely made a fashion statement with his eclectic image. Recently, Jame$’s music [...]
DeErricka Green | Managing Editor In celebration of Halloween, junior members of the Duke Women’s Lacrosse team hosted a party and costume contest at head coach Kerstin Kimel’s house. The women decided to dress as characters from The Little Rascals. This meant someone had to portray Buckwheat, which of course meant, that someone had to [...]
Kierra Leggett| Editor-in-Chief Mike “Mic Live” Greene spends his days working at the Trader Joe’s on Wake Forest Road in Raleigh, but every Monday at 11:30 p.m. he can be found underneath the railroad tracks at the Free Expression Tunnel. The 27-year-old emcee, is one of many people who congregates at the entrance of the tunnel [...]
Deja Williams | Staff Writer As a part of this year’s Homecoming festivities, N.C. State’s National Pan-Hellenic Council hosted a stroll off event that featured stepping from members of Divine Nine Chapters at N.C. State and the surrounding community. Though it is typically the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of a Divine [...]
By Kareem Williams Leggings are pants. Period. Pants are defined as a piece of garment that covers each leg from the waist down to the ankles. They are completely acceptable in society and anyone who would be dismissive of them is naïve. Someone asked me if I would introduce my girlfriend to my mother in [...]
Recently, Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA enacted its new appropriate attire policy. In this new policy, eleven expectations have been set to show how Morehouse men are expected to dress. Examples of this new dress policy include no do-rags, no women’s clothing, and no sagging in the classroom or at campus events. Most would wonder [...]
The subject of race has always been an important one for President Obama, he first gained minor notoriety in academic circles for being the first African American President of the Harvard Law Review, and wrote a best selling and critically acclaimed book, (Dreams From My Father,) about the subject of race in America. He also [...]
In an atmosphere that was filled with good spirits and the smell of home-cooked food, the sixth annual El Salsabor once again provided the NC State community with a glimpse inside the Latino culture. “The purpose of El Salsabor is to showcase the uniqueness and diversity within the Latino culture and kicks off Hispanic Heritage [...]
No one can say with authority who was the first person to express ideas synonymous with pan-Africanism, but resistance to foreign domination has been a constant element of African history on and off the continent. It is generally accepted, however, that true pan-African thinking first appeared among Black people in the Diaspora. Africans who were [...]
It is not a myth that a large amount of the world’s population is racially mixed. It may not show, but it is still there. Just because a person may appear to be one race does not mean that they are just that. On some occasions you cannot physically tell if someone is mixed. Other [...]
Hispanic Heritage Month, started in 1968, runs from September 15th to October 15th and celebrates the achievements and showcases the plight of Hispanic/Latinos in America. Although the “month” is really half of two different months, there is a reason. September 15th is the anniversary of independence for five Latin American countries: Costa Rica, El Salvador, [...]
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