HAMPTON, VA. — With the celebration of the second inauguration of our first African-American president, the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 100th anniversary of the March on Washington, the reflection on African-American history is forefront on the minds of many.

By Simone Hunter | Contributing Writer As the Christmas season approaches, many people become excited for various reasons, such as family bonding, indulging in great food, and shopping sales. But has Christmas become commercialized to attract people to the holiday shopping sales instead? This year, stores like Walmart and Target opened at 8 and 9 p.m., leaving little time for [...]

Leah Barlow | Features Editor Do you have something to say? Blogs have become the way Generation Y is able to communicate—everything from restaurant reviews to relationship advice can be found on the World Wide Web, and anyone can get in on sharing an opinion or experience. Hampton University students Kenneth Greene, Jr., James Hobbs, Cameron Miller and Forrest Carpenter [...]

The Obama rally in Holland Hall Gymnasium attracted long lines of people, all anticipating First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech at 12:30 p.m. Some attendees arrived as early as 6:45 a.m.

Leah Barlow | Features Editor Travis Porter made a song about them, Wale shouted them out in “Ambitious Girl,” and J.Cole has mentioned them a few times. Who are they? College Girls. Women in college have always been a topic of conversation, but third-year five-year MBA major, Montiera Straughter from Los Angeles, California, has found a way to build on [...]

A New Direction for Honors College from The Hampton Script on Vimeo.     Maulana Moore | Editor-in-Chief “I remember her calling me at 11:30 at night, as that was the time she usually called, and said ‘baby, are you ready to come home,” said Sabin Duncan, interim director of the Freddye T. Davy Honors College. Those words, spoken by [...]

By Shakena Davis, Contributing Writer I was seven years old in North Jersey, swinging hips to hits like “Real Love”- emotions I had yet to experience. I didn’t know what it meant to “Do Anything” for my “Sweet Thing,” but in ’93 a girl—from Yonkers, N.Y.—average as me wearing gold jeans and a matching tee stepped on stage at the [...]

By Sekia Magnum, Staff Writer Social Maverick is an up and coming clothing line founded, owned and designed by sophomore Anthony Holt, a business management major from Petersburg, Va. The definition of Social Maverick is best understood starting with the word “maverick.” A maverick is an unorthodox or independent-minded person who looks to accomplish their works with their own methods. [...]

By Shaun Warren, Contributing Writer While growing up in the Seattle, I tried to do almost anything that I could do to be cool. When I was in the seventh grade I smoked for the first time and had my first sexual encounter with a girl. That was the beginning of my walk down the road to destruction. For about eight years [...]