August 20th, 2020 celebrates 100 years since the 19th Amendment, which prohibited denying suffrage to anyone on the basis of sex, was ratified and adopted into...
The passing of House Bill 999 (“H.B. 999”) by the Florida House of Representatives and introduction of House Bill No. 1006 (“H.B. 1006”) by the Texas...
The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. released the following statement on their website today regarding the Oakland Police Department’s violent arrest of their fraternity brother Brandon...
In a response to the news of the US Supreme Court potentially reversing Roe v. Wade, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. released a statement reaffirming their...
The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. released a statement on Tuesday regarding President Joe Biden signing the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. Read the full...
The sorority sisters of Delta Sigma Theta took to social media to make a statement about the treatment of Haitian migrants in Texas by US Border...
The following is an Op-Ed from 2019 by Trés McMichael. As an openly gay Musical Theatre major from the suburbs of Maryland, I was more interested...
The sorority sisters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have released a statement on the Derek Chauvin trail verdict for the murder of George Floyd. The...
The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma have released a statement on the Derek Chauvin trail verdict for the murder of George Floyd. The statement, which was...
The fraternity brothers of Phi Beta Sigma along with the sorority sisters of Zeta Phi Beta took to social media today to stand against the rising...
“Mother Nature tells you in a myriad of ways that something is a-kilter,” Kappa Alpha Psi brother Kelly Darden says in an interview produced by David Salvesen of the...
In the summer of 1934 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority initiated their “Summer School for Rural Teachers” in rural Lexington, Mississippi. The program was intended to improve...
The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. released a statement today on the outcome of the Kentucky Grand Jury inquiry into the killing of Breonna...
Seattle has been one of the central points of the Black Lives Matter protests this summer and if you have been to the city, you have...
On Sunday, the Washington (DC) Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. led a Black Lives Matter march that was attended by several other Black...
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has signed an historic Memorandum of Understanding with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), which is...
The following is a speech given by Frederick Douglass on July 5th, 1852. He was initially asked to give the speech when the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery...
To honor the life of George Floyd and vow to remain vocal about social injustice, the brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. in Fort Worth...
Young people in Washington DC are leading the way and making their voices heard. Many of them leading this movement there are Black fraternity and sorority...
The brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. at North Carolina A&T are using their resources to help those speaking up about injustices in America. On...
In response to the police killing of George Floyd in South Minneapolis, the presidents of Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta...
The National Chaplain of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Reverend Dr. Johnathan C. Augustine, recently published an open letter regarding the reopening and preoccupancy of houses...
In response to the Ahmaud Arbery case, the presidents of Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma and Iota Phi Theta...
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. issued an official statement today demanding justice for Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was killed by a group of white...
The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha are putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to supporting families during the COVID-19 pandemic. The fraternity...
In response to President Donald Trump’s “Opening Up America Again” plan, the General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Everett B. Ward, Ph.D., published an...
In today’s day and age, social media is king. A brand’s most accessible and influential touchpoint with its audience is online. If there was ever any...
Watch the Yard Announces Yard Con, a $2 Day-Long Digital Conference for Black College Students Who Have Been Disproportionately Affected by COVID-19 (April 15th, 2020) –...
On Sunday, thousands of people traveled from across the nation to Selma for the anniversary of the 1965 march which turned into”Bloody Sunday” on the Edmund...
The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. just released a statement about the slew of racist incidents that have happened at Syracuse University recently. In...
Two congresswomen who are members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. just launched the Black Maternal Health Caucus to improve black maternal health outcomes. In April,...
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. released an official statement today addressing the recent abortion ban in Alabama as well as other laws that deny women access...
The following is the official statement released by Alpha Phi Alpha, the original release can be found here. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first intercollegiate...
Planned by Aivan Traylor, the University of Houston NPHC hosted its third annual celebration of the life and legacy of Sandra Bland. Usually the event is...
The people over at Black Lives Matter Nashville have created a script for those who want to contact the Governor of Tennessee and ask him to...
Nila Morton, a member of the Rho Zeta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., recently shot a powerful video on ways to truly show respect for people...
The women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. released a public statement yesterday via their official website sending their condolences to the victims of gun violence across...
The McArther Foundation just announced Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II as one of their 2018 Genius Grant recipients. Rev. Dr. Barber was named as one...
The women of Zeta Phi Beta issued a statement Tuesday urging members of the sorority and its auxiliaries to contact their senators and let them know...
The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma have issued a public statement on Supreme Court candidate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The statement, which was released by the fraternity...
The United States has been boiling with violence and hate and while watching the news and social media can be hard for adults, hearing about and...
This week, Nike caught heat from multiple national police organizations from across the nation after it announced that Colin Kaepernick would be one of the faces of...
The NFL has caught a lot of extra heat after it was announced yesterday that Colin Kaepernick would be one of the faces of the Nike’s 30th...
This opinion piece was written for WatchTheYard.com by Demar F. Lewis IV on 9/12/16 When I first saw the news breaking about Colin Kaepernick over the...
Question: What happens when members of the Divine Nine family who all teach at the same school do a remake of Childish Gambino’s “This is America”...
The Tuscaloosa Alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity Inc., filed a suit with the U.S. District Court last week claiming that Cypress Inn restaurant had...
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. released a statement from their national headquarters today urging for “swift justice” in the police involved shooting of Antwon Rose Jr.,...
Victoria Eugenia Santa Cruz Gamarra was an Afro-Peruvian choreographer, composer, and activist who is widely regarded as “the mother of Afro Peruvian dance and theatre.” She...
On May 29, Starbucks closed 8,000 stores across the United States for four hour so that 175,000 of its employees could come together for a conversation...
A brother of Omega Psi Phi and a soror of Delta Sigma Theta are on a mission to save the Detroit honey bee population by turning...
The women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. held an official press conference about gun violence pushing for gun control on Wednesday in Washington DC. During...
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. released a statement this morning stating that one of the men in the viral Starbucks video of two Black men being...
Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother, became a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. today. Fulton is now a member of the historic African American sorority’s...
Tiffany Loftin, the new Director for the NAACP Youth and College department showed up today at the March For Our Lives Rally and let everyone know...
The women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, are meeting at the United Nations in New York today to advocate and speak about women’s access to media...
Over 1,200 women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. showed up in Washington, DC this week to have their voices heard. The members of the organization...
Emorja Roberson a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has used his talents to speak out for peace after the recent school shootings across the...
Dr. Mary Breaux Wright, the International President of Zeta Phi Beta recently released a public statement on behalf of the sorority regarding the school shooting at...
In 1963, more than a dozen African-American girls, between the ages of 12-15, were arrested and locked in a dilapidated stockade for two months without charges....
Malcolm Jenkin’s definitely held it down for the brothers of Omega Psi Phi before, during and after winning the Super Bowl in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The 30-year-old...
Many know that the FBI wiretapped Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s, but have you ever seen the letters that they sent him threatening him...
The pipeline to prison is a problem that disproportionately affects the African-American community and four Black women who are judges and members of Alpha Kappa Alpha...
“The chief significance of Alpha Phi Alpha lies in its purpose to stimulate, develop, and cement an intelligent, trained leadership in the unending fight for freedom,...
The brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha at Davidson College are speaking out against President Donald Trump’s DACA repeal. The brothers of the Tau Omicron Chapter of Alpha...
San Fransisco 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick has decided to use his own money and the money he has made from his jersey sales to help the...
The debate over memorials and statues has become a hot topic in the US over the last two weeks. With the taking down of Confederate memorials,...
The brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi showed up in large numbers to support their brother Colin Kaepernick at the United We Stand Rally in front of...
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no...
A SPLC listed white nationalist group by the name of The National Policy Institute requested to reserve space for a speaker at Michigan State University and the...
Florida Representative Shevrin Jones (D-West Park) a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. says he will file legislation to immediately remove all Confederate statues, signs...
The Grand Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. published a letter that he wrote to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently supporting his fraternity brother Colin Kaepernick...
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated released the following statement on 8/12/17 Chicago, Illinois – August 12, 2017 – Dorothy Buckhanan Wilson, International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha...
Congressman Al Green, a Houston Democrat, and member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. is the first member of Congress to officially call for President Trump’s impeachment...
Colin Kaepernick is being treated unfairly. A lot of people are calling for a boycott of the NFL if he does not get picked up by...
Published in 2017 In response to the Supreme Court allowing parts of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to go into effect, we at Watch The Yard...
On Friday a jury acquitted St. Anthony police officer in the shooting death of Philando Castile, a black man, during a traffic stop. Today, the footage...
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, delivered the commencement speech at Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday and received an extremely cold welcome from the graduating HBCU students who...
You’ve definitely heard the story of how Ruby Bridges desegregated the New Orleans school system in 1960 at the age of 6. For many young people...
This is how Greeks can work to help those facing domestic violence. But before we start the article here are some facts about domestic violence in...
Did you know that the first white member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., was a freedom rider who was hunted by the KKK for working...
On February 8th, Chad Robertson, an unarmed Black man was fatally shot by an Amtrak police officer just outside of Chicago’s Union Station train terminal. According...
The city of Chicago has received a lot of media attention in 2017. Recently, Chance The Rapper’s historic night at the Grammy’s has put Chi-town back...
San Fransisco 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick has decided to use his own money and the money he has made from his jersey sales to help the...
Fredrick Douglass once stated, “It is easier to raise strong children than to repair broken men.” GREAT TEACHERS are what our country needs, and especially in...
San Fransisco 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick has decided to use his own money and the money he has made from his jersey sales to help the...
In our Black communities across the United States, we are suffering from what some call “Food Deserts” or neighborhoods where even if people wanted to eat...
Currently, there are 892 know hate groups in the United States and there is now an interactive map that is tracking them. The Southern Poverty Law...
Currently, there are 892 know hate groups in the United States and there is now an interactive map that is tracking them. The Southern Poverty Law...
The day before Thanksgiving, the founder of WatchTheYard.com drove to Standing Rock to show solidarity and support with the water protectors and to find how to...
Since Sunday night, more than 167 Native Americans and allies fighting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline have been injured by police, who attacked them with...
This was originally posted on December 15th, 2015 A brother of Alpha Phi Alpha has made national news after he was seen being forced by security...
Delta Sigma Theta’s Soledad O’Brien is not having it with the way cable news networks including CNN, her former employer, are making money off of the...
The Nupes are standing up, taking a knee and letting their voices be heard. Last week, Jonathan Williams, a Spring 2012 initiate of the Beta Omicron...
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has apologized for characterizing National Anthem protests led by Kappa Alpha Psi NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other athletes “dumb and disrespectful” as well...
People across the world are joining together to help Haiti after Hurricane Matthew hit the island and killed more than 800 people, sending over 61,500 to shelters. According...
[This piece was written by Alexzandria Chill | UNT Graduate. Marketing Freak. Frankie Bev Fanatic. Adamant Knowledge Seeker. Lady of ZPHIB [Pearl Clu5]. Founder of Blog:@DPTaughtMe] At...
Colin Kaepernick’s protest of the National Anthem has grown so large that he will be featured on the cover of the October 3rd issue of Time...
“You don’t have to train police not to shoot white people, why do you have to train them not to shoot us?” That’s what former Zeta...
With the video of another unarmed black man being shot and killed by police officers being released today, many are pointing toward the fact that this...
Seeing videos of Black people being gun downed and killed by police officers has become so prevalent this year that some feel that they are starting...
The school year just started, we haven’t even hit Halloween yet and campus racism is already a problem. Northern Kentucky University is in the news after...
The national anthem protest of Kappa Alpha Psi’s Colin Kaepernick seems to be slowly be gaining steam across the NFL. On Thursday, during the NFL opener, Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall joined the movement...
After experiencing the multiple deaths of black men at the hands of police this summer, the Theta Phi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi at Troy University...
Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc.’s Director of Communications just sent this press release to WatchTheYard.com.
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. released the following statement on via social media on July 11 2016: According to Grand Polemarch, Thomas L. Battles, Jr., “there...
Kappa Alpha Psi’s Marc Lamont Hill is not backing down to racist statements. During a live segment on CNN, Professor Marc Lamont Hill attempted to correct...
[Originally posted on July 13th, 2015] On Wednesday night, the International Headquarters of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., held a “Prayer Line” conference call for their...
Miguel is known for his passionate ballads but the singer just released a song for #BlackLivesMatter. In the wake of Black death by police brutality across...
Phi Beta Sigma’s very own Rep. John Lewis and a group of his fellow Democrats took to the House floor Wednesday morning to stage a sit-in...
On Friday, Kappa Alpha Psi’s Grand Polemarch, Thomas L. Battles, Jr., released a statement of the fraternity’s website denouncing the xenophobic statements by presidential candidate Donald Trump...
We are approaching the anniversary of the death of Sandra Bland and he women of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. are not planning on letting her...
Members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. are fed up with the violence in Pittsburgh’s Hill District so they gathered...
Inspired by an article by Daniel Johnson as well as the recent protests surrounding sexual assault at HBCU’s and black women on college campuses around the United...
Sigma Gamma Rho soror Monica O. Montgomery had a chance opportunity to be a featured Humans of New York (HONY) story. She told HONY creator and...
Geneva Reed-Veal, the mother of Sandra Bland, was inducted into Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc., her daughter’s beloved sorority this weekend along with activist and pastor Hannah...
Spring 15 initiates of the Gamma chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Jason Smart-El, Douglas Green & Avon Bryant, recently packed a car full of...
Are you tired of seeing pointless viral videos online? Well we have something for you that is going to exercise your brain and get you thinking!...
People often criticize young citizens from underprivileged areas saying that they would rather stand in line to buy something like a pair of Air Jordans than...
Illiteracy and misunderstanding about the religions of others is something that spans the globe and has caused wars, death and suffering for thousands of years but...
Bernie Sanders released a dramatic new ad today featuring Erica Garner, the daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner. The four-minute ad starts with Garner’s daughter talking...
On Saturday at 12:30pm, the Hampton Pirates will officially introduce lacrosse into their athletic stable while officially reintroducing the sport BACK into the HBCU sports fold...
Members of Black greek fraternities and sororities are stepping up nationally to save the lives of our fellow citizens in Flint, Michigan who are being poisoned...
Today we celebrate the 72 birthday of American political activist, scholar, and author, Angela Davis (born January 26, 1944). Angela emerged as a prominent counterculture activist...
Monday it was revealed that the Commander-in-Chief and Kendrick Lamar sat down in the Oval Office to discuss a variety of topics including the mentoring of...
A grand jury has decided that no felony crime was committed by the sheriff’s office or jailers of Sandra Bland. The grand jury met for more...
The internet is crying “reverse racism” after Rosalind Brewer, the CEO of Sam’s Club opened up to CNN in an interview about how she pushes diversity...
The women of Alpha Kappa Alpha at Southern University have used their platform of stepping to produce arguably the most moving step show in the history of...
The Alphas are standing up to Fox and Sean Hannity and making it known that they are in the community and that they do WORK! Watch...
Alpha Phi Alpha’s Roland Martin is bringing that heat! Bro. Martin brought Bishop E.W. Jackson on to his show today and destroyed him when he called...
The sports world was put on notice last month when African-American football players at the University of Missouri joined protests that successfully forced the school’s president...
After becoming fed up with the violence that is happening in Chicago over 100 brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. gathered in the snow to...
After becoming fed up with the violence that is happening in Chicago over 100 brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. gathered in the snow to hold an anti-violence rally...
Today it was announced that the University of Missouri Board of Curators has chosen law school professor Michael A. Middleton as the interim president of the...
The University of Missouri’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigned Monday morning in the face of a walkout by faculty and a strike by football players that was...
The University of Missouri’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigned Monday morning in the face of a walkout by faculty and a strike by football players that was...
The University of Missouri’s president, Tim Wolfe, resigned Monday morning in the face of a walkout by faculty and a strike by football players that was...
Earlier last month the hacktivist collective “Anonymous” announced that they would release the names of members of the Ku Klux Klan and it looks like they stayed...
Layla Evette, a Black student at Southern Methodist University, recently took to the internet to explain her thoughts about sorority-recruitment and how hard it is for Black women to...
On Monday afternoon a video of an incident that happened at Spring Valley High School in northeast Richland County, South Carolina began to go viral and...
On Thursday, President Barack Obama defended the Black Lives Matter movement, saying that their concerns about racial disparities in the criminal justice system are legitimate. He...
Kappa Alpha Psi’s Martese Johnson may be getting the justice he deserves. “Lawyers for the University of Virginia student bloodied by alcohol-control agents outside a bar in...
Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of the New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me and National Book Award nonfiction nominee did a talk to the students...
This past weekend Kappa Alpha Psi member, Alvin Cade, Jr., traveled to Washington, D.C. using his rent money to see the Justice or Else gathering in...
CNN’s Reliable Sources show recently did a segment featuring Princeton University professor and proud brother of Alpha Phi Alpha, Dr. Cornel West as well as Huffington Post...
A video posted to social media yesterday of police violently detaining a UDC student who was using an ATM has caused an uproar and even protests....
Justice Or Else! The Million Man March 2015 20th anniversary, 10-10-15 in Washington, D.C., announced by Minister Louis Farrakhan is happening right now. Click on the...
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN EVERY YEAR!? On Tuesday night Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Phi sorority threw a “Kanye Western” themed party on the campus of UCLA. It just...
Last night, a video hit the internet of a member of Omega Psi Phi who also happens to be a city council member being tazed by...
[The information and photos in this article are directly from the official press release that was released by Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.] September 21, 2015...
Taju Shoaga, a member of the Zeta Psi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi has gone viral after his spoken word piece about police brutality was featured on...
This is a must see for everyone. Please share. President Barack Obama sits down with Vice and prison inmates at the El Reno correctional facility to...
Fed up Texas Southern University students and alumni have taken their frustration with their university public and now it has gone viral. On Wednesday, thousands of complaints...
Fed up Howard University students and alumni have taken their frustration with their university public and now it has gone viral. On Wednesday ,thousands of complaints...
Delta Sigma Theta is yet again stepping up to the plate for social justice and has expressed its intention to staunchly support the Department of Justice...
In the true spirit of “Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance and Uplift” Omega Psi Phi has teamed up with Fathers Inc. to encourage at least 20,000 Black fathers across the nation to sign...
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., sent out a press release this morning about their participation in the funeral for their sorority sister, Sandra Bland, who suspiciously...
On Thursday, Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. released an official statement addressing the death of their sorority member, Sandra Bland who died suspiciously in Texas jail...
On Monday morning, Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old businesswomen and member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. was found dead in a Texas jail cell and many...
[This piece was written by WatchTheYard.com Guest Writer, Alexzandria Chill] Just about a month ago, McKinney, Texas broke the internet. We witnessed Police Officer Eric Casebolt...
While we have already reported about the tragic deaths of the Honorable Clementa C. Pinckney of Alpha Phi Alpha and Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton of Alpha Kappa...
While we have already reported about the tragic deaths of the Honorable Clementa C. Pinckney of Alpha Phi Alpha and Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton of Alpha Kappa...
As soon as we at WatchTheYard.com head about the death of Alpha Phi Alpha Bro. Reverend Clementa Pinckney, we reached out to the Alpha Phi Alpha...
Last night, a caucasian man in his early 20s walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, spent an...
Last night, a caucasian man in his early 20s walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina, spent an...
This Op-ed was written exclusively for WatchTheYard.com by Abdul M. Omari who is a Regent at the University of Minnesota, 2006 Mu Chapter initiate of Alpha...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s National President, Brad Cohen, has responded to the controversial video that was released Sunday of white members of his fraternity’s Oklahoma chapter chanting...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is going to have to spend a lot of time working on damage control. A video was posted on Sunday of members of...
This article was originally posted on Iowa City Press Citizen. A group of 45 students filled the halls of the Iowa City and Coralville police departments...
On Thursday January 29th, Kappa Alpha Psi took over the internet! In honor of National Mentoring Month, Kappa Alpha Psi’s National Guide Right Committee launched a...
The women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., know how to support their members. On Wednesday, the Senate hearing room where sorority sister, Loretta Lynch was...
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., has expelled five of its members who participated in VH1’s controversial “Sorority Sisters” show. According to the organization’s website, Priyanka Banks,...
