Savannah State University is making sure HBCU students across the nation are safe. Savannah State University (SSU) alumni Cyrus Jackson, the owner of 1 Indigo Child, LLC, which produces Dr. Hobbs Antibacterial Hand Sanitizer with Aloe, recently contributed a donation to his alma mater valued over $1.5 million dollars. Designated for the College of Business […]
Former University Of Kansas student Albert Wilson will get a new trial after Judge Sally Pokorny agreed that his court-appointed trial attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel, according to Fox4 KC. In 2019, Wilson was convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl that he met at a bar in Lawrence, Kansas, when he was 20. He was sentenced to […]
Sixty years ago today, nine black students entered an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. The new documentary “Teach Us All” honors the Little Rock Nine. It explores how educational inequality still plagues the U.S. six decades later. Bianna Golodryga spoke to director Sonia Lowman and backer Ava DuVernay about the film. Subscribe to […]
“I knew it was going to be big,” Oyeneyin told WTVR. “But this is insane, to be honest. I’ve never seen that happen before. People are seeing it from all over the world.” One Twitter user poked fun at the situation writing, “President said: Student Body? Naw Student BODIED..” As of Thursday, the video has […]
A teacher in Louisiana is facing a battery charge for allegedly trying to remove a Black Lives Matter hoodie from a ninth-grade student. The controversial incident happened on March 4 when the Opelousas High School teacher, Patricia Brignac, approached the student and asked him to remove the hoodie, KLFY reported. When the student refused to remove the clothing, Brignac […]
An Arkansas school teacher in North Little Rock has been accused of having a kindergarten student pull toilet paper out of a clogged toilet with feces in it with his hands according to ABC 4. The boy’s mother, Ashley Murry, says that her 5-year-old told her about the incident when his teacher at Crystal Hill […]
In an effort to highlight the people who are leading graduate universities across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to Dickinson College in Pennsylvania and did an interview with Phil Butler the Student Government Association president. The position of SGA president of a is a highly respected role and there is a […]
Police in Georgia have decided to reopen the case of Kendrick Johnson, who was found dead inside of a rolled-up gym mattress after a dispute with two white students in January 2013, according to WSBTV. Lowndes County Sheriff Ashley Paulk told the local news outlet that their office had been asking federal authorities for all […]
Black History Month expands students’ understanding of the Black experience in American history. But one teacher in Akron, Ohio wanted her students to see that Black history isn’t something that happened in the past, it happens every single day through each of them. She worked with our Student Reporting Labs program to record these reflections […]
You guys, February is Black History Month, and we decided to honor it by having another incredible Black History Panel with Black voices of all different ages and backgrounds. If you enjoyed last year’s panel, you’ll love this deep dive into what it means to be Black in America right now, especially in light of […]