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Trump’s acquittal is only the beginning
LaMonte Patterson, Assistant Editorial Pages Editor | March 6, 2020
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Haywood speaks candidly to all SGA branches
Alexis Butler, Senior Staff Reporter/Writer | February 24, 2020
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Viewpoints
Xenophobia in the midst of the coronavirus
Nefsa’Hyatt Brown, Editor-in-Chief | February 21, 2020
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Viewpoints
Kobe Bryant and death in the social media age
LaMonte Patterson, Assistant Viewpoints Editor | February 21, 2020
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Sports
Who’s a part of ASU’s No.1 recruiting class in the SWAC?
Reprinted from the Montgomery Advertiser | February 15, 2020
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Horizons
From controversial JSU president to a prostitution sting: Who is William Bynum Jr.?
Reprinted from the Clarion Ledger | February 11, 2020
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Alabama NAACP, others oppose Trump nominee to federal appeals court
February 10, 2020
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Separating church and state in higher education
Nefsa'Hyatt Brown, Editor-in-Chief | February 9, 2020
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Photo of Corryn Carter, Editorial Pages Editor.

Kennedi Smith, Assistant University News Editor

March 6, 2020 • No Comments

After a year of writing for The Hornet Tribune, Corryn Carter, a staff reporter and Viewpoints section editor, stepped down from her duties to become the interim attorney general for the Alabama State University Student Government Association. However, before being sworn in, Carter denounced her title. During the Senate meeting, in which Carter was confirmed, Davida Haywood, Ph.D., the Vice President of Student Affairs, stated that the Executive Treasurer, Aliyah Muhammad, would not be impeached. Following the vice president’s sentiments, Carter concluded that without Haywood’s support, there is a chance that nothing would come of the work she...

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Horizons

From controversial JSU president to a prostitution sting: Who is William Bynum Jr.?

Rogelio V. Solis/AP

This is a Jan. 16, 2020 photograph of then president of Jackson State University, William Bynum Jr., 57, at a college board meeting in Jackson, Miss. Bynum resigned effective immediately, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, after he was arrested during the weekend in a prostitution sting in Clinton, Miss. The former president was among more than a dozen people arrested during the weekend. He is charged with procuring services of a prostitute, false statement of identity and simple possession of marijuana.

From controversial JSU president to a prostitution sting: Who is William Bynum Jr.?

Reprinted from the Clarion Ledger

February 11, 2020 • No Comments

The president of Jackson State University was arrested in a prostitution sting at a Clinton hotel this weekend, authorities announced Monday. William Bynum Jr. allegedly gave officers a fake name when he and 16 other people...

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Viewpoints

Prison Reform

Corryn Carter, Editorial Pages Editor

March 6, 2020 • No Comments

On Feb. 18, Alabamians for Fairer Justice descended upon the Alabama State House to demand that legislators commit to criminal justice reform. Alabama, a state touting the fifth-largest prison population in the country, is...

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Hornet Living

Peggy Wallace Kennedy bringing ‘The Broken Road’ book tour to two Montgomery bookstores

Reprinted from the Montgomery Advertiser

December 3, 2019

Montgomery’s own Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the "symbol of racial reconciliation.” In the summer of 1963, she was just a young girl watching her...

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Sports

Who’s a part of ASU’s No.1 recruiting class in the SWAC?

Reprinted from the Montgomery Advertiser

February 15, 2020 • No Comments

MONTGOMERY — As the weeks of Alabama State's regular season dwindled, head football coach Donald Hill-Eley made it clear that he had high expectations for the Hornets' future. "I think we have hit the turning point of...

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Arts and Entertainment

The Latest: Billie Eilish wins 5 in dominant Grammys

Associated Press

January 27, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday at Los Angeles’ Staples Center (all times local): 8:38: p.m. Billie Eilish has...

R. Kelly’s Girlfriend Joycelyn Savage: He Kept Me ‘Locked Up Like Some Damn Animal’

November 24, 2019

Sean “Diddy” Combs Releases Official Statement On His Role In Comcast Lawsuit

November 22, 2019

T.I. says he accompanies his daughter, 18, to the gynecologist every year to make sure she’s still a virgin

November 8, 2019

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Alumni News

Civil rights attorney Fred Gray honored by National Black Caucus of State Legislators

Reprinted from the Montgomery Advertiser

December 3, 2019

Civil rights attorney Fred Gray will be honored with a Living Legends award from the National Black Caucus of State Legislators. Gray represented civil rights heroes like...