Leadership Highlight: Marquita Burrowes the President of Zeta Phi Beta’s Chi Eta Zeta Chapter in Cambridge, MA

In an effort to highlight the people who are leading graduate chapters across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to the sorority sisters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.’s Chi Eta Zeta Chapter in Cambridge, MA and did an interview with Marquita Burrowes the President of the chapter. The position of President/president of a Black sorority chapter is a highly respected role and […]

The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X (Cambridge Companions to American Studies)

Malcolm X is one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century struggle for equality in America. With the passing of time, and changing attitudes to race and religion in American society, the significance of a public figure like Malcolm X continues to evolve and to challenge. This Companion presents […]

Black Writers: Zadie Smith and Caryl Phillips

Authors Zadie Smith, White Teeth and The Autograph Man, and Caryl Phillips, The Final Passage, Crossing the River and Cambridge will read from their work. Zadie Smith, at age 14, changed her name from Sadie to Zadie, and in 2000, as a 21-year-old Cambridge University graduate, published her first novel, White Teeth. In her second […]