Nubian Message

  Kierra Leggett | Editor-in-Chief Worn as a symbol of the pain African Americans have endured as a people, Greek members put on their best Grit Faces for Pan Afrikan 2013 Grit faces galore were displayed this past weekend as the 2013 Pan Afrikan Festival came to an end. The greatest abundance of the faces were [...]

DeErricka Green | Managing Editor Junior Aleiah Miller wanted to participate in the annual St. Baldricks event last year, but she “chickened out.” April 8 of this year however, thanks to the encouragement of friends and family, Miller shaved her shoulder-length hair in order to support the Foundation’s childhood cancer research, raising more than $300 in [...]

Chelsea Gardner | Staff Writer How Past Racial Tensions Will Shape Williams’ Presidency   Brian Nixon, N.C. State’s second African American Student Body President resigned from office in 1990, just one month before his presidency ended, after he was attacked outside of North Hall. Despite the short amount of time left in his candidacy, the racial [...]

Kierra Leggett | Editor-in-Chief Beginning next fall Africana Studies (AFS) and Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) could merge to form a single Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) major. The formation of this merger would lessen AFS and WGS to concentrations. Proposed by the Task Force on Review of Academic Programs, the intent of the merger would be to [...]

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 [...]

An Interview with Mr. & Ms. Pan Afrikan 2013  DeErricka Green | Managing Editor  The Pan-Afrikan Scholarship Pageant is an event that UAB President Lauryn Collier brought back to the Festival last year. The Scholarship Pageant embodies the founder of Pan-Afrikan Week, Kwame Nkrumah’s original intent to educate and celebrate black culture, by giving students [...]

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 [...]

Kierra Leggett | Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ricky Jones addresses hazing in the 21st Century, at annual Dr. Lawrence M. Clark Lecture  Dr. Ricky Jones delivered this year’s annual Dr. Lawrence M. Clark Lecture yesterday evening, on the subject of hazing within Greek-Letter organizations.  A member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and the author of Black Haze: [...]

Aaron Thomas | Staff Writer Ebony Magazine has had ENOUGH with the rise in urban violence in Chicago. The city of Chicago, founded by John Baptiste Point du Sable, a Black man, should be noted for its ability to produce influential people of color throughout our country. However, with roughly 60 murders committed since January, the [...]

  Kierra Leggett | Editor-in-Chief The news of three African American candidates vying for the position of Student Body President has created excitement among the entire campus community, especially among African American students. While the candidates are proud to have made history with what is believed to be the first ballot for N.C. State Student Body [...]

  *Editor’s Note: This article has been modified from its original version. Morrison spoke with David Rainer, the Associate Chancellor of Environmental Health and Public Safety, not Chancellor Randy Woodson. We will run a correction in the 2/27/13 issue of the Nubian Message.  Freshman accuses Campus Police of Racial Profiling  Kierra Leggett| Editor-in-Chief Justin Morrison, a freshman majoring in [...]

NCSU Students Tackle HIV/AIDS Amanda McKnight | Staff Writer My Health Impact Network, a non-profit organization started on N.C. State’s campus, is doing its due diligence to educate young people in the black community about HIV/AIDS. One way it is doing this is through the use of technology.  It will soon be launching an app in [...]

HBCU Four-Year Graduation Rates Are Considerably Low  Aaron Thomas | Staff Writer North Carolina Central University was ranked the “#1 Public HBCU in the Nation,” in 2010 by the U.S. News & World Report, however recent graduation rates have many wondering both how and why. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, in the fall of [...]

Kierra Leggett | Editor-in-Chief  Members of the NCSU Black Alumni Society are dissatisfied with the current status of black unity on N.C. State’s campus. This dissatisfaction was expressed last Wednesday in a series of rabble-rousing tweets sent from the BAS Twitter page by BAS Treasurer, Anthony Norman. Norman tweeted, “ The #RENAISSANCE of  #NCSUBLACKUNITY needs to [...]

Elders of N.C.State’s African American Community Honored with New Art Gallery Exhibit  DeErricka Green | Managing Editor The Peer Mentor Program. The African American Symposium. The African American Cultural Center. The first two programs and the center itself represent only part of the legacy that trailblazers Dr. Lawrence M. Clark and Dr. Augustus Witherspoon left for [...]