Did you know that Ethel L. Payne, known to many as the “First Lady of Black Press,” was an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority,...
Did you know that the late 70s lineup of the iconic Motown singing group “The Temptations” were members of Phi Beta Sigma? Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin,...
Did you know that Samuel Pierce, the first African American Fortune 500 company board member was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha? Pierce pledged the Alpha...
Did you know that Jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha? Adderley pledged the Beta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,...
Did you know that actress/vocalist Etta Moten Barnett was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha? Barnett pledged the Delta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc....
Did you know that Malvin Russell Goode, United Nations correspondent was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha? Goode pledged the Omicron Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha...
Did you know that the first African American head coach in the NFL Fritz Pollard was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha? This is a fact!...
While searching through online newspaper archives we came across the story of a man named Jack Campbell who claimed to be the last slave auctioneer alive...
Did you know that Atlanta’s first Black millionaire was a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha? In December of 1924, during Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s 17th General...
Did you know that most of Kappa Alpha Psi’s founders served in the US military during WWI? It’s true. Of the ten men who founded the...
On September 19, 1963, in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement, 12 men came together at Morgan State University (then Morgan State College) and created Iota...
The brothers of Phi Beta Sigma are doing their part to help the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter(NAPRPP) Museum with COVID-19 relief funds. The museum, which...
Most of us were taught about Lewis and Clark’s expedition across North America in US History class. We hear about Sacagawea, the difficulty of the terrain,...
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...
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman were both born into slavery around the same time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and became two of the best-known African...
This article was originally published on 8/17/2017 With the decision by Kappa Alpha Psi’s Colin Kaepernick to boycott the National Anthem, our nation has started to...
Netflix’s new series Self-Made has opened up a discussion about Black women’s economic impact on America. Self-Made is a new mini-series that chronicles the story of...
Do you remember how the brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi used to represent at Langston University in the 90s? We at Watch The Yard recently came...
In honor of Black History Month, a group of students at Coppin State University got together to reenact a photo from the 1970s that was shot...
In June of 1924 the Eta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, at this time a mixed chapter composed of both undergraduate and graduate members from New...