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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…

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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,…

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Jury selection began Monday for the first of four members of Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) marching band on charges of felony hazing…

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(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…

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This isn’t a good morning for the students, faculty, and alumni of Florida A&M University. Yesterday, prosecutors announced that they will be filing charges against thirteen FAMU students involved with the death of Robert Champion, and the hazing of two other students. According to autopsy reports, there was no single blow, stomp, or strike that […]

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It looks like not only fraternity members, of Kappa Kappa Psi, were involved in the Flordia A&M  hazing scandal. According to witnesses, that told the police, two FAMU faculty members were present while band fraternity pledges were hazed. The hazing took place at one of the faculty member’s home, according to the investigation report. Authorities […]

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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 […]

This morning, Roland Martin reported, on the TJMS, that Florida A&M is creating an independent committee to study hazing. The university will also create a memorial dedicated to fallen FAMU band-member, Robert Champion. Is that enough to pay respect him? One idea brought up, that raised eyebrows, was to suspend the band for the rest […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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LITHONIA, Ga. (AP) — Florida A&M University had a “culture of hazing” that led to the recent death of a marching band member, an attorney for the student’s family said Monday. See also: Attorney says suit planned in FAMU band death See also: Caribbean Culture Has Infused Miami For Over 100 Years Attorney Christopher Chestnut said […]

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(AP) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The longtime director of Florida A&M University’s famed marching band was fired Wednesday as the fallout from a drum major’s suspected hazing death deepened. Florida’s governor said state investigators would join the probe and the college announced an independent review led by a former state attorney general. See also: Hazing Looked […]