30th Anniversary Issue

Nov 30, 2022

A Justification, Since You Asked

They say where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Rewind to Sept. 25, 1992, and you would find both at NC State’s Brickyard as some 200 students burned copies of the Technician in a rally for an alternative Black newspaper. The protest came two days after inflammatory opinion pieces containing racial slurs—one of which suggested an impending race…

Nov 30, 2022

Here’s What You Missed

Shanquella Robison On Oct. 29, a 25-year-old hair braider and Winston Salem State University graduate, Shanquella Robinson, was found dead in her room while on vacation with her six friends in San Jose del Cabo. Initially, Robison’s friends told Robinson’s mother, Salamondra Robinson, that she had died from alcohol poisoning. Salamondra Robinson informed WJZY “They…

Nov 30, 2022

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: A Mastery Of Musicality

When I was younger, I remember taking car rides with my father around Greensboro. He always played great music by exceptional musicians, ranging from Lil Wayne to Adele. However, during one of these car rides, I heard a song that made my ears perk up. This song was “To Zion” by Lauryn Hill. This song…

Nov 30, 2022

Black Podcast Culture: Fresh and Wrong

Black Podcast Culture. This is a fairly new culture created to give Black people a platform to celebrate other Black people. According to The Black Detour Team, there are over 800,000 podcasts and over 30 million episodes recorded. Although this is the case, Black voices carry only a small percentage. Thousands of topics are covered…

Nov 30, 2022

Suffering From (Black) Success

The aspect of success when it comes to Black people is one that’s layered with many nuances and gray areas. When I think of Black success, I imagine the endless amount of T-Shirts in large letter font that say “Black Excellence”, and two-piece H&M suits talking about brunch. Am I saying that this is a…

Nov 30, 2022

The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall

In early October, Kanye ‘Ye’ West debuted a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt at Paris Fashion Week. He responded to subsequent backlash by writing mockingly on Instagram, “my one t-shirt took allllll the attention.” Since the release of The College Dropout, the mega-rapstar-turned-billionaire has laid his heart on the track while putting his reputation on the…

Nov 30, 2022

The Legacy of Artist Alma Thomas

Various Black artists have made their mark on the creative world throughout history; unfortunately a large number of them are overshadowed by their white counterparts. One of the most prominent victims of this is Alma Thomas, an African American abstract expressionist artist and teacher. Thomas, also known as Alma Woodsey Thomas, was born on Sep.…

Nov 30, 2022

Post-Primaries: Where Your Party Stands

On Nov. 8, North Carolina held their midterm elections. Earlier in the year, North Carolina had a court-ordered congressional district map drawn up to be used for the 2022 election. This, coupled with the increase of tech jobs in the state put pressure on North Carolina for the midterm elections. Additionally, this midterm election has…

Nov 30, 2022

An Era Of Global Resistance

In less than 15 years, the numbers of protests and uprisings around the world have more than tripled. Two of the largest movements ever recorded in human history have all occurred within the last ten years including 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests and India’s 2020 Farmer protests.  Everywhere around the world there are people organizing…

Nov 30, 2022

A Look Into Then and Now

The Nubian Message has been around for 30 years. As we’ve grown and changed as a publication, so has the world around us. I would also like to make note that the opinions of one individual does not reflect the opinions of everyone on our team. So let’s look back at some of our predecessors’…