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76-year-old sent back to prison after missing phone call during class

76-year-old sent back to prison after missing phone call during class

A 76-year-old woman is going back to prison after reportedly missed a phone call from officials charged with supervising her while was taking a computer word-processing course in Baltimore Inner Harbor. Gwen Levi is just one of many federal prisoners who was released from prison and sent to home confinement during the pandemic according to […]

65-Year Old Philadelphia Grandmother Graduates From High School as Class Valedictorian

65-Year Old Philadelphia Grandmother Graduates From High School as Class Valedictorian

65-year-old Twyanna Williams has graduated from high school after putting her education off for several years. Williams graduated as the class valedictorian. When the Philadelphia native was a teen, she didn’t finish high school and had to take jobs to support the family, because her parents separated. “I felt sad for myself for coming out of […]

Malcolm X – The House Negro and the Field Negro

Malcolm X – The House Negro and the Field Negro

The House Negro and the Field Negro, speech by the great Malcolm X, after the March on Washington (1963). Malcolm X was still in the Nation of Islam. Browse through my videos, there are plenty of Malcolm X speeches. Don’t forget to share in memory of our brother, that’s the least we can do. source […]

Delayed, Not Denied: 51 Years Later, Jackson State’s Class of 1970 Receives a Golden Diploma, But Bloody Past Remembered

Delayed, Not Denied: 51 Years Later, Jackson State’s Class of 1970 Receives a Golden Diploma, But Bloody Past Remembered

The following article by was sent to Watch The Yard by Jackson State University’s University Communications Department. (JACKSON, Miss.) — The Jackson State College Class of 1970 finally got to walk across the stage Saturday after campus shootings prevented a graduation back then, and the COVID-19 pandemic nixed the 50th celebration last year. More than a half-century […]