It's been 60 years since Hiram Whittle, the first undergraduate African-American was admitted to the school. There have been major improvements to diversity on campus since 1951, and in the fall 2011 semester there was 3,256 undergraduate African-Americans attending the school, according to the Institutional Research Planning and Assessment.

        African-Americans, Africans, and Caribbean face large divide in the U.S. even as the country as a whole makes strides to become racially tolerant. According to the journal article "Black versus Black: The Relationships among African, African American, and African Caribbean Persons" in the Journal of Black Studies, ideas about relations between groups of people affected by the slave trade still permeate all the cultures to this day.

        The university's Nyumburu Cultural Center and the Black Faculty and Staff Association are creating theNyumburu Indigenous African Language Program, which will expose students to a number of different languages and cultures of Africa.

  In August, The New York Times reported that Lionsgate and Tyler Perry are currently working on forming an all-Tyler network. Does this mean more shows than those already on TBS? TBS currently airs Perry's ‘House of Payne,' and  ‘Meet the Browns,' and will also run a new series, ‘For Better or Worse' starting sometime this month.

  Let me paint a scene for you. It's a perfect day; everything is going your way and life is good. Now it's lunchtime and perhaps some Panda Express sounds like it will really hit the spot, so you head to Stamp. You manage to dodge all of the sorority girls trying to sell you cupcakes, and you're about two steps behind someone who is walking in the door.