Graphic by Geo Baldwin By Niles Garrison, Features Editor Another year of Spelhouse Homecoming is here. Morehouse College’s Campus Alliance for Student Activities (CASA) and Spelman’s Programming for Unique and Lively Spelman Experience (PULSE) look to bring another week of exciting activities for SpelHouse students. At Hump Wednesday today, both organizations announced the…
Photo by Carson Ming, Photo and Video Editor By Hunter Bonaparte, Arts & Entertainment Editor Music lovers and aspiring artists stopped by Morehouse’s Bank of America auditorium to attend the highly anticipated Pandora Playback with Luh Tyler. The young rapper sat down with Fly Guy DC to talk about his life and answer questions…
Image via Warner Music Group By Hunter Bonaparte, Arts & Entertainment Editor The AUC’s Welcome Week festivities are set to be full of excitement. Popular artist and rap sensation Luh Tyler will visiting Morehouse on Aug. 27. He will team up with Pandora to present Pandora Playback live in Atlanta. The start of a…
Image: Spelman NOIRE. Group (Credit: Zeke Rabb) By Hunter Bonaparte, Arts & Entertainment Coordinator NOIRE. is a contemporary popular music ensemble of several multi-talented Spelmanites. Maroon Tiger sat down with them to speak about their upcoming “Matters of The Heart!” concert. The group has been around for a while. Founded in 2015 by…
Image: Various students in the Jazz Festival performing By Isaiah DuBose III, Staff Writer Five months of practices, lessons, and excitement culminated in an electrifying afternoon of soul. Under the direction of Morehouse freshman Cameron Smith, the inaugural Jazz Fest showcased the musical talents of students across the AUC. The ensemble of singers,…
Image via Willie Wasson, President of MWTS By Dylen Richmond, Staff Writer On Thursday, the Morehouse Writing and Thinking Society (MWTS) hosted its Afrofuturism Workshop led by Morehouse English professor Tanya Clark. Her goal was to introduce students to the concept of Afrofuturism. Clark began her workshop by posing the question: “What…
Image via Lauren Briscoe By Erinn Gardner, Staff Writer The Miss Spelman Advisory Board (MSAB) hosted the 5th annual Atlanta University Center (AUC) wide Vagina Monologues on March 21 in Sisters Chapel. “The Vagina Monologues” originally began as a play written in 1996, exploring a variety of topics through a women’s lens by way of…
Graphic via Elevator Creative By Hunter Bonaparte, Arts & Entertainment Coordinator The Elevator Creative, a student founded organization that is committed to the development of student artists and creative minds, and First Attendant to Miss Spelman, Ayiana Davis Polen, partnered to provide AUC students with an opportunity to learn about turning art into a…
Image via Focus Features By: Chelsea Frazilus and Amaiya Mills, Staff Writers “The Magical Society of Magical Negroes”, produced by Kobi Libii, is a satirical comedy addressing the cinematic trope of the ‘magical negro’ in conversation with the threat of white discomfort on the livelihoods of Black Americans. The Maroon Tiger spoke with…
Image via Auzzy Byrdsell By: Kayla Edelin, Staff Writer The AUC student body gathered at Morehouse College’s Kings Chapel Thursday for the concluding panel associated with the first stop on the “A Different World Tour”. The cast of the 1980s hit sitcom is on a nation-wide tour to give back to the HBCU…
