After almost 20 years, Morris Brown College in Atlanta has regained full accreditation. On Tuesday, the HBCU was granted full accreditation in a unanimous vote from...
J.R. Smith may skipped having a college experience because he was drafted into the NBA straight from high school in 2004 but the 35-year-old announced today...
President Joe Biden released his American Families Plan yesterday. The Whitehouse sent Watch The Yard a list of some of the commitments from the plan that...
If you are currently enrolled (academic year 2020-2021) in a certification or a 2-year degree in healthcare related STEM fields, this maybe a scholarship opportunity for...
Need to quickly explain the importance of the Divine 9 to someone who has never heard of it before? It may be hard to do since...
Chris Paul partnered with black-owned tech application, Mov, earlier this month to raise money for HBCU men and women’s basketball programs. Over the last season, CP3 has been...
Big news for the HBCU community! Morris Brown College is finishing up the final steps to get its accreditation back! According to Morris Brown’s administration, the...
Texas Southern University students marched to the polls Tuesday morning to kick off early voting. Following the university’s famous Ocean of Soul Marching Band, students marched...
Facebook announced today that they are launching a new college-only space called Facebook Campus. According to Facebook, Campus will be unique to students at each college/...
The sorors of Delta Sigma Theta at Morgan State University welcomed the students at their school back to school this week with love and compassion. In...
The Thurgood Marshal College Fund just announced that they to were among the 116 organizations to receive a portion of the total 1.7 billion dollars that author and...
Morehouse College just announced that they had received an eight-figure gift from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of the world’s richest man and Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos....
Spelman College announced on Tuesday that it had received a “magnanimous” gift from author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, the former wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The...
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced via the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) website today that if international students on F-1 and M-1 visas...
In an effort to highlight the people who are leading graduate universities across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to Alabama A&M University...
Editorial sponsored by Chevrolet Blazer African Americans have been supported throughout the years by amazing community groups that have educated, empowered and emboldened generations. Through engagement...
Bowie State University’s 2019 Commencement was EVERYTHING! The sun was shining, the graduates and faculty were glowing with pride, and Roland Martin gave the commencement speech...
Graduation season is upon us and members of Black students are taking their artistic graduation caps to a whole new level. We at Watch The Yard have...
Want to really make yourself sound like you didn’t really deserve your degree? Use the words Alumnus, Alumna, Alumni or Alumnae wrong in a job interview,...
Valdosta State University is now offering a course about Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ album and we are totally here for it. The course, AFAM 3600 E: Black Women...