Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of Cheryl A. Hickmon, the current National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. who died Thursday morning. Hickmon...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of iconic actor Max Julien, a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and a graduate of Howard University....
Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of Jelani Day, a member of Omega Psi Phi and graduate of Alabama A&M University who had been missing...
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the death of civil rights activist and Omega Phi Phi Fraternity, Inc. brother Vernon Jordan. According to...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of groundbreaking actress Cicely Tyson, a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Tyson’s career in film and television...
The following statement by Alpha Phi Alpha General President Dr. Everett B. Ward was issued to Watch The Yard by Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternity, Inc.’s Director...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of Earl G. Graves, Sr., the founder of Black Enterprise, who died on Monday at the age of 85....
Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of jazz pianist, teacher and patriarch of famous New Orleans musical family, Ellis Marsalis Jr., who died on Wednesday...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of beloved Detroit community leader, Rep. Isaac Robinson, who died on Sunday from suspected coronavirus complications at the young...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the death of beloved Detroit community leader, Marlowe Stoudamire, who died on Tuesday from the coronavirus at 43 years old. Stoudamire...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing of NASA trailblazer and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. member Katherine Johnson. Johnson, who is best known for calculating and...
It is with great sadness that we at Watch The Yard inform you that Faye Beverly Bryant, the 21st International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,...
The following is from a press release issued to Watch The Yard by Lane College Jackson, Tenn. (November 26, 2019). – The College regrets to inform you...
Today it was announced that the former Michigan Democratic congressman, Jon Conyers, who was one of the longest-serving members of the House of Representatives and a...
The following release was sent to Watch The Yard to be published by the NPHC. Title: STATEMENT OF DR. EVERETT B. WARD, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL...
It is with great sadness that we inform you that Congressman Elijah E. Cummings has passed away. According to reports, Cummings passed away at Johns Hopkins...
It is with great sadness that we inform you that the Honorable Founder Charles Brown, one of the founders of Iota Phi Theta has passed away. The...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing of Delta Sigma Theta soror Nancy Parker. Parker, 53, who had worked as an anchor and reporter at FOX...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing of Alpha Kappa Alpha soror Toni Morrison. Morrison died at age 88 Monday night at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Known...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing and honoring the legacy of Delta Sigma Theta member Unita Blackwell who passed away at the age of 86...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing and honoring the legacy of Kappa Alpha Psi member Dr. Granville Coggs who passed away at the age of...
It is with great regret that we inform you that director John Singleton of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. passed away today (4/29/19) at the age...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing of Delta Sigma Theta soror Aretha Franklin. Franklin died at age 76 Thursday morning in her hometown of Detroit after...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing of Alpha Phi Alpha brother Ron Dellums who served as a U.S. Congressman and the 3rd Black mayor of...
The Black fraternity/sorority and South Carolina State University communities are currently mourning the loss of Obadiah Njoku a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. who...
The University of Central Florida community is currently mourning the loss of 21-year-old student Reuel Buchanan of Omega Psi Phi. Buchanan died after being hit by a...
Members of Black fraternities and sororities are raising money for Mothers Against Drunk Driving in honor of Omega Psi Phi member, Myles Avery Holland, who was...
Today the brothers of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. released a statement about the passing of their 34th Grand Basileus, Dr. C Tyrone Gilmore Sr. “As Omega...
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the passing of Walter Bell Jr., a proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi. Bell was a Gary,...
The Black Greek community is currently mourning the loss of 19-year-old Alfred Lillard Motlow III of Omega Psi Phi. FAMU students, Alfred Motlow, 19, and his...
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the loss of two of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.’s former National President’s, Frankie Muse Freeman, Esq....
American civil rights attorney, the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, and the 14th National President of Delta Sigma...
On the eve of their 105th Founders’ Day yesterday, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. released a statement about the passing of their beloved soror and former...
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the loss of Davidson County Sheriff’s Office deputy and proud member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.,...
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the loss of longtime Atlanta news anchor and proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Amanda...
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the loss of Kent State student and proud member of Omega Psi Phi, Devin Moore. Moore, who...
The Black fraternity and sorority community is currently mourning the loss of Devon Tyrone Wade, a sociology doctoral candidate at Columbia University in New York City and...
The fraternity brothers of Thomas Orr, III are mourning the death of their brother a thirty-year-old off-duty police officer and member Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc....
On Saturday, Dick Gregory, a pioneering force of comedy in the 1960s who later became an iconic social and political activist died of heart failure at...
It is with great sadness that we at WatchTheYard.com inform you that Dr. Moses C. Norman Sr., the 33rd Grand Basileus of Omega Psi Phi, has...
The Black fraternity and sorority is currently mourning the passing of William Taggart the interim President of Morehouse College in Atlanta. According to reports, Taggart passed...
The Black Greek community is currently mourning the loss of 18-year-old Jayquon Tillman of Kappa Alpha Psi. Tillman was an Eastern Michigan University sophomore who was...
Black greekdom is currently mourning the passing of Kappa Alpha Psi member Curtis Owens who passed away Christmas day. Curtis pledged Kappa Alpha Psi in undergrad...
It is with great regret that we inform you that Brother Albert C. Spurlock (Beta Chapter 1933) of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. passed away on 2/4/15...
The HBCU community is currently mourning the loss of four Claflin University students who died in a car accident Thursday evening in South Carolina. Melvin Lonell Jackson...
The Black Greek community is currently mourning the loss of Gary Earl Johnson Jr. of Phi Beta Sigma. Johnson, a senior at Fort Valley State University,...
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Kappa Alpha Psi’s George Rodriguez (Kappa Rho, Spr. 1980). If you were a...
The brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi are currently mourning one of their own, legendary assistant coach, Hubbard Alexander who passed away on Sunday at the age...
Thursday June 16th marks exactly one year since the horrible day when 22-year-old Dylan Roof walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic African-American church in...
The Black Greek community is currently mourning the loss of 23-year-old Alexandra Dean of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Dean was caught in a crossfire at...
(Issued by Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.’s International Headquarters on June 4th, 2016) Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated extends our collective condolences to the family of...
The Black Greek community is currently mourning the loss of 24-year-old Terrell Trent Wilson of Kappa Alpha Psi. According to reports, he died on Monday at Yale-New Haven...
The Black Greek community is currently mourning the loss of 23-year-old Reymond Berhane of Kappa Alpha Psi. According to Florida Highway Patrol, Berhane was driving a...
Thursday January 28th, 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle exploding in 1986 just 73 seconds after taking off over Cape Canaveral for its...
It is with great sadness that we inform you that the Vice Polemarch of the Brooklyn Long Island Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, Phil “Flex”...
It is with great sadness that we inform you that nine time Grammy winner and sister of Delta Sigma Theta, Natalie Cole, passed at the young...
Black Greekdom is mourning the passing of 79-year-old Pat Spencer this week. Pat was a prominent member of Zeta Phi Beta who had dedicated her life to...
Black Greekdom is mourning 20-year-old Adedire Olanrewaju Ososanya, a Morgan State student and member of Omega Psi Phi, who died as a result of a violent head-on...
Today marks the one year anniversary of the passing of a modern legend of Kappa Alpha Psi, Bro. Jonathan Hicks. Brother Jonathan P. Hicks transitioned into...
It is with great sadness that we inform you that Doris Robinson a well known member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc., and the wife of...
It is with much regret that we inform you that on Thursday, Taylor Moore, a Fort Valley State University student and member of the Alpha Beta Chapter...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Hundreds of people showed up to celebrate the life of political icon Louis Stokes, Ohio’s first Black congressman and a civil rights pioneer, at his...
It is with great sadness that we inform you that Brother Robert L. Williams, the oldest living member of Kappa Alpha Psi, who just days ago, we...
Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes, a 15-term congressman from Ohio and a member of the Cleveland Alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. has died...
On Monday Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. lost Soror Amber Curtis-Pratcher the founder of RealZetas.com. If you are a Sigma or a Zeta you are well aware...