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Joe Bullard, Program Director WHBX-FM 96.1 JAMZ & The Voice of FAMU’s Marching 100 talked to the Tom Joyner Morning Show about his work with…

FAMU’s the Marching 100 impressed fans after creating the widely popular “Kermit Drinking Tea” meme during their halftime performance at the Florida Classic. Watch the…

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,…

01/13/14- Roland Martin talks with Elmira Mangum about being elected Florida A&M University’s first female president. For iPhone users:

The Florida A&M Rattlers have named Trayvon Martin‘s father, Tracy Martin, an honorary captain for the upcoming season. Martin spoke to the team during practice…

(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…

Texas Southern University’s infamous “Ocean of Soul” marching band is suspended after alleged hazing claims surfaced. University officials haven’t determined which band members were associated, but TSU spokeswoman Eva Pickens told Houston’s KTRK-TV it involved the trumpet section .  As of now the entire band is under suspension. Ocean of Soul didn’t perform during half time […]

There are more than 130 registered student organizations at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida, but none of the clubs will be taking in new members this spring and fall. FAMU President James Ammons announced on Tuesday that membership intake for all student organizations, sororities and fraternities is cancelled, and the summer band camp also […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  — Pledges of a Florida A&M marching band club known as the Clones were punched or paddled while they played music during a hazing initiation, according to police records released Friday. Four band members were arrested in the beatings and charged with hazing. SEE ALSO: Chinese Bloggers Mock U.S. SOPA Outrage It’s the […]

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 […]

Student leaders at Florida A&M University signed a pledge Monday night to stand against hazing and to rid the nation’s largest historically-black university of a culture that claimed the life one of the drum majors in its famed Marching 100 band.   Student Government Association President Breyon Love said it was time for the students […]

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 […]