In an effort to highlight the people who are leading colleges and universities across the nation, we at Watch The Yard reached out to Virginia Union University and did an interview with Davon Harris the 2022-2023 Student Government Association president. The position of SGA president is a highly respected role and there is a special […]
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The oldest surviving schoolhouse for enslaved Black people and children was relocated to the Colonial Williamsburg museum in Virginia. The post Historic Schoolhouse For Black Children Moved To Virginia Museum appeared first on Blavity. According to NBC, the historic Bray schoolhouse was built 25 years ahead of the American Revolution, near the college campus of […]
50 years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Loving — Mildred and Richard Loving, who successfully sued the state of Virginia, forcing it to recognize their interracial marriage. That landmark case overturned laws against interracial marriages all across the country. Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News Check out VICE News for […]
(BPRW) PHARRELL WILLIAMS’ BLACK AMBITION ANNOUNCES TOP PRIZE WINNERS, CLOSES OUT MIGHTY DREAM AWARDING $2.5M OVER 3-DAY FORUM IN VIRGINIA (Black PR Wire) Norfolk, VA – Recently, Black Ambition founder Pharrell Williams and CEO Felecia Hatcher announced the winners of the 2022 Black Ambition Grand Prize and HBCU Prize during the initiative’s ”Dinner with a Purpose” event at Pharrell’s MIGHTY DREAM FORUM on Thursday night. In addition to […]
Lynch, 19, who is now a sophomore at UVA, previously attended Hampton University. At an audition during a campus fashion show earlier in the semester, she first got to know student-athlete Christopher Jones. They both became too busy to participate, and neither took part. On the Sunday trip to Washington, D.C., about 2.5 hours away […]
A Virginia woman says she was scammed out of $170,000 by a doctor she met on an online dating website. Cassandra Drummond says she connected with Andrew Logan a man who said he doctor on BLK, a dating app marketed for Black singles in July 2021. Drummond believed she found a good match, however, ended […]
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A University of Virginia student shot and killed three members of the school’s football team as they returned to campus from a field trip, authorities said, setting off panic and a 12-hour lockdown at the school until the suspect was captured Monday. The violence that also wounded two students late Sunday […]
“HBCUs are extremely important. For Black and brown kids, we go into this scary world. We’re dealing with so much adversity, whether it’s police killings or systematic oppression, but when you go to an HBCU you gain a family,” Matthews, aka Mister HBCU, said, according to the outlet. Source link Related Posts How US schools […]
Last week a jury acquitted a former Virginia Tech football player who had been accused of fatally beating a man he says he initially believed was a woman from a Tinder match. 19-year-old Isimemen Etute was found not guilty of a charge of second-degree murder in the 2021 death of Jerry Smith, 40, of Blacksburg. […]