Tallahassee Community College is paying off close to $5.9 million of student debt with pandemic relief money from the federal government. Close to one-third of TCC students qualify for this funding. TCC administrators hope this assistance will remove financial obstacles encountered by low-income students, according to WCTV. Dr. Barbara Wills,Continue Reading
Talon staff members interviewed Tallahassee Community College students on campus to find out their favorite things about TCC and get them to answer a puzzling trivia question.
By Latoya Hannah | Assistant Editor Tallahassee Community College students can keep themselves safe now by using the college’s new safety app called Eagle Safe. It allows students to easily contact TCC Campus Police and alert friends and family of possible dangers. The app has several resources including a campusContinue Reading
By Michael Tuzzolo | Assistant Editor Since he was in third grade, DustyStayTrue has been writing raps in class and freestyling at the lunch table while his friend “Nugget” provided the beat. “I always knew I wanted to be a rapper, I just didn’t know when it was going toContinue Reading
By Riana Fisher | Talon Contributor Theatre TCC! will present six performances of “Almost, Maine” Oct. 7-17 in the Turner Auditorium. This will be Theatre TCC!’s first live performance since “Noises Off” on December 8, 2019. All shows have been live-streamed since then because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Almost, Maine”Continue Reading
Shenaria Lozada| Opinion Piece Not just this nation, but the entire world is currently facing a Global Pandemic no average person could possibly ever predict to experience. Hugs, family gatherings, traditions and even work went dark for months. Free education, mass vaccinations and stimulus checks reigned farther than ever before,Continue Reading
Sport: Softball Hometown: Jacksonville, FL Career Goals: Sports Broadcaster Favorite Musical Artist: Gucci Mane Favorite Movie: Lords of Dogtown Favorite TV Show: Greys Anatomy Favorite Book: It’s Kind Of A Funny Story Hobbies: Dancing, Skateboarding, Tanning If you could have dinner with anyone in the world (living or dead), whomContinue Reading
By Maybelline Somoza | Opinion There are two funny stories my mom likes to tell. One involves the countless times she’d have to quite literally drag me outside the car with one shoe on and the other off so I could go to school, and the other is about myContinue Reading
In Introduction to African American literature, we always start by reading excerpts from the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. In 2016, I discovered that Frederick Douglass was the most photographed man of the 19th century, when I came across the book Picturing Frederick Douglass. Douglass embraced photography inContinue Reading
By Tyler J. Vivas | Contributing Writer Tallahassee local Matthew Nazareth cherishes the memory of his grandmother baking cookies for an orphanage near her home in Goa, India. Through these actions, she taught her grandson to give back to others without compensation. After her death, Nazareth traveled to several partsContinue Reading