By: Chris Hess

I recently heard a debate between two students that caught my attention. It also made feel ancient, and I’m just 26. The students were discussing which rapper was better, Soulja Boy or Wacka Flocka. I thought to myself, “not exactly the Biggie...

By: Willie Pace

James E. Shepard was born Nov. 3, 1875 in Raleigh, just 10 years after America’s Civil War ended. The South was still smoldering under the tempest of social calamity when Shepard was born. Shepard was a visionary of the highest caliber. What could h...

By: Desmond Webb

What’s the difference between a woman and a man? In today’s society, nothing is really that different. I try my hardest to look at everyone as an equal, but with so much discrimination going on, that’s pretty hard to do. Women today face...

By: Chioke Brown

It’s not unfamiliar for a man to hear a woman bragging about her “independence.” But she may do so while also requiring that her potential mate be independent himself. But is she truly independent? And what is independence?...

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By: Jamon Glover

December 2009, I finally  graduate from college. Not bad for a military guy who was never supposed to amount to anything.  Summer 2008 was my first semester at N.C. Central University. I was transferring from Troy University in Montgomery, Ala....

By: Willie Pace

I am glad that we are having this discussion. I will try to delve deeper to relate some other considerations appertaining to this phenomenon. I would say those who need to read the “Saggy Pants, Baggy Pants” article have not read this objectiv...

By: Ersula McRae-Jerkens

I remember a time when a dude would get joked on hard if he showed up to school wearing some tight jeans clinging to his legs. Yet, recently, there seems to be a growing number of closet, tight-jean lovers coming out everyday. The sight, even now, seems o...