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(BPRW) Holiday Cheer Spreads as Boys & Girls Clubs of America Alumni & Brand Supporters Continue Efforts to Help Youth Achieve Great Futures | Press releases

(BPRW) Holiday Cheer Spreads as Boys & Girls Clubs of America Alumni & Brand Supporters Continue Efforts to Help Youth Achieve Great Futures With the holidays in full swing, loyal Boys & Girls Club celebrity alumni and brand partners are spreading joy and investing in the next generation of leaders, innovators and problem-solvers through December […]

Committed to the Movement: First Tee Alumni hailing from HBCUs are Winning with Entrepreneur Program supported by Wells Fargo

When the youth development organization First Tee launched 25 years ago, Tim Finchem, former PGA TOUR Commissioner, wanted to make the game of golf more accessible to kids from all walks of life. Through golf, he hoped to empower kids to build self-confidence and an inner strength that they could carry with them throughout their […]

Harvard, MIT, and Wellesley Student Body Presidents Urge Us to Recognize the Black Alumni who Paved the Way for their Historic Elections

This Black History Month, current and former Student Body Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Wellesley are using their platforms to shed light on the achievements and sacrifices of the Black alumni at their respective universities. Danielle Geathers (MIT), Noah Harris (Harvard), and Tatiana Ivy Moise (Wellesley) made history in 2020 with their elections, marking the […]

Howard University Alumni Couple Gives School Million Donation After Protests By Students Over Campus Living Condition

Howard University Alumni Couple Gives School $5 Million Donation After Protests By Students Over Campus Living Condition

Eddie C. Brown and C. Sylvia Brown, class of ‘61 and ‘62, have recently made an historic donation to Howard University. The couple $5 million donation was to the school’s Graduation Retention Access to Continued Excellence Grant. GRACE, the need-to-base program created in 2014, promises on-time graduation for students who’ve completed their freshman year, Philanthropy […]

Stephanie Mills Shows Support to Phylicia Rashad After Howard Students and Alumni Call for Her To be Fired

Singer Stephanie Mills showed support of her friend, actress and Howard University’s dean Phylicia Rashad, on July 3 after the university’s students and alumni called for her firing following her celebratory tweet about Bill Cosby’s overturned sexual assault conviction. The initial Instagram post comes days following Rashad’s issued apology. She stated that her post wasn’t “intended […]

Leadership Highlight: Sheldon Smith the Polemarch of Kappa Alpha Psi’s Denton Lewisville Alumni Chapter in Texas

In an effort to highlight the people who are leading graduate chapters across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to the brothers of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.’s Denton Lewisville Alumni Chapter in Denton and Lewisville, Texas and did an interview with Sheldon H. Smith the polemarch/president of the chapter. The position […]