While in person homecomings across the nation have been cancelled this year and there are certainly no shortages of virtual HBCU homecoming participate in from week to week, YouTube is joining in on the fray. It’s offering will take be live streamed next Saturday, October 24 at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT on YouTube, and broadcast live on BET. The HBCU Homecoming 2020: Meet Me On The Yard, will be hosted by rapper 2 Chainz and La La Anthony and feature gospel artists Tye Tribbett with the FAMU Marching 100 and the FAMU Concert Choir.
Additional appearances will include Desi Banks, Pretty Vee, and more.
The show will raise funds for the United Negro College Fund and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. It will also feature Greek step shows, students, alumni, and YouTube creators. In addition to the FAMU Marching 100, a performance by the Jackson State U. "Sonic Boom of the South" Marching Band is also on tap.
YouTube is the second largest social media platform in the world. "Meet Me on the Yard" is one of a series of shows created from YouTube's $100 million Black Voices Fund devoted to illuminating the works of Black creatives and accentuation "Black experiences around the world," according to a release.