ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina deputy shot and killed a Black man while serving a search warrant Wednesday, authorities said, spurring an outcry from community members who demanded law enforcement accountability and the immediate release of body camera footage. Authorities wouldn’t provide details of the shooting but an eyewitness said that Andrew […]
The University of North Carolina is eying new names for three buildings on its flagship Chapel Hill campus named for people with white supremacist and racist ties. The News & Observer reports that an advisory committee met Thursday to discuss potential names. The committee will select a list of names for the university’s chancellor to consider recommending […]
The unit also ran almost a full second faster than their competitors, LSU, who came in second place at 3:01.00. Weeks prior to the record-breaking performance, the team was ranked best in the nation after claiming the victorious title at the NCAA Division I Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field Championships. “People are always […]
North Carolina A&T University has tapped two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown to be the commencement speaker for their commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 9. The university announced Tuesday that Brown, who is famous for his role as Randall Pearson in NBC’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated drama series “This Is Us” will deliver a […]
AL-Tarrek Bell, an 18-year-old North Carolina native who was visiting family in Edgewater Park, New Jersey, sacrificed his own life to save a boy when someone fired shots. The incident took place on March 27 while Bell was sitting in the back seat of a car with his girlfriend’s 10-year-old nephew. Someone at the apartment opened […]
Antonio and Andrea Williams say they postponed their honeymoon because they wanted to immediately start their first retail business Tryon Dollar Store. The store in Charlotte, North Carolina opened about 2 months after their wedding. After their we in October 2020, the Williams’ resumed their business plan. They couple decided to open a dollar store even […]
North Carolina Elementary School Apologizes For Having 4th Graders Write Pro-Slavery Twitter Hashtags For Civil War Assignment A North Carolina school district has released an apology after students at a elementary school that gave students pro-slavery tweets and hashtags for a Civil War-era assignment. Waxhaw Elementary School students are encouraged to adopt personas from the […]
NORTH KOREA BROKE ITS conspicuous silence in recent months with a fiery message to leaders within the Biden administration during their tour through the region and to their local allies. “We take this opportunity to warn the new U.S. administration trying hard to give off the [gun]powder smell in our land,” Kim Yo Jong, the powerful […]
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 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.’s Phi Lambda Chapter in Wake and Johnston Counties in North Carolina including Raleigh, Cary, Apex, Garner, and Clayton and did an interview with Eddie […]
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 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.’s Eta Mu Lambda Chapter in Gastonia, North Carolina and did an interview with William Gardin the president of the chapter. The position of president […]