If you haven't seen a Greek step show like the one featured in the 2006 movie "Stomp the Yard" you might want to get to a St. Petersburg greek show early to get the best seat. That's because people will tell you the rhythmic moves are breathtaking and if you blink you might miss the action.

No one knows that better than the producer of the flick Will Packer Jr. He's from South St. Pete. He graduated from Florida A & M in Tallahassee in electrical engineering and says he stumbled into film making because he wanted to be an entrepreneur.

He and his best friend Rob Hardy, have accomplished that goal together by   more »

On UD’s campus, the word “nupe” might not generate many pictures in a person’s head.

There aren’t many of them left, but nupes, members of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., are trying their best to revive a brotherhood they hold dear.

Kappa President Stacey Harris is the only active member left on campus and represents the fraternity alone in the Kappa house, 206 Lawnview Ave. He is surrounded by colorful 5-foot pledge class paddles in every room, with names of brothers he never knew. He is also often surrounded by invested alumni, a reminder of the family he will always have.

From 2000 to 2006 Kappa was the largest black fraternity on campus. UD recognized it as an official organization in 1978; it was founded at Indiana University in 1911. Its birth state was the same as the Ku Klux Klan’s during a time there weren’t many black college students, according to chapter adviser Charles Kellom.

The adversity Kappas have faced throughout the years gives them a reason to join together. Kellom, ’05, said the fraternity is “a tradition of lifetime commitment . . . because we’re always helping brothers succeed.”   more »