(BPRW) Summit Challenges D.C. Area Students to Design Climate Change Solutions Black Student Fund and Forbright Bank host D.C. area students and environmental experts in week-long summit to build business ideas that address local sustainability issues (Black PR Wire) CHEVY CHASE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Black Student Fund and Forbright Bank will host the second-annual Sustainable Solutions […]
(BPRW) Summit Challenges D.C. Area Students to Design Climate Change Solutions Black Student Fund and Forbright Bank host D.C. area students and environmental experts in week-long summit to build business ideas that address local sustainability issues (Black PR Wire) CHEVY CHASE, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The Black Student Fund and Forbright Bank will host the second-annual Sustainable Solutions […]
Democrats are sounding the alarm concerning the underfunding of HBCUs. Addressing a disparity between HBCUs and PWIs has been the focus of Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona and Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack since 2023. They addressed letters to 16 governors around the country, citing that HBCUs have been subject to a $12 billion disparity […]
Kenyan President William Ruto announced that his government signed an agreement with HBCUs, including Spelman College, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University and Howard University. The goal is to boost STEM education and economic development in Kenya and the United States. The news comes as Ruto is on a state visit, the first by an African […]
We at Watch The Yard pride ourselves on being at the center of college culture for Black students. Recently, Student Government Association presidents from across the nation at private colleges, state universities, as well as Historically Black Colleges and Universities opened up about the importance of Watch The Yard to college students at their campuses. […]
An impressive monument was unveiled at the University of South Carolina to honor Robert Anderson, Henrie Monteith Treadwell and James Solomon Jr. — the three students whose enrollment 60 years ago changed the course of the university’s history. The Board of Trustees commissioned a 12-foot bronze monument near McKissick Museum. In 2022, the school shared […]
“It is very much disheartening to hear that this program that opened the door for me to come to Duke is now being closed essentially, even though it will take on a new form,” Mya Harris, a junior, told The Duke Chronicle. The program was established in 1979 in honor of Reginaldo “Reggie” Howard, Duke’s […]
Students reportedly climbed on tables, threw eggs throughout the dining hall, spit at each other and used racial slurs. Following an incident, the university’s Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Alpha Phi Sorority chapters have been temporarily suspended. According to the university’s Association of Black Students, the majority of the staff members in the dining hall that […]
The chapters of both Kappa Sigma Fraternity and Alpha Phi International Women’s Sorority at Washington University in St. Louis have been temporarily suspended pending the results of a student conduct investigation after an incident that the school’s Association of Black Students(ABS) is calling a hate crime. According to a report by Student Life, the independent […]
(BPRW) Macy’s 2024 “Black History, Black Brilliance” Campaign Huge Success, Raising nearly $1.4 million for Scholarships for Students Attending HBCUs (Black PR Wire) In partnership with UNCF (United Negro College Fund), Macy’s raised nearly $1.4 million to support students attending historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) during this year’s Black History Month observance. For the third […]