Yardfest Day 1 (Concert) | Homecoming 2025
About this Event
Experience the iconic tradition of Yardfest with live stage performances featuring a diverse range of top tier artists and entertainment that reflect the Howard diaspora, including a surprise chart-topping guest. Yardfest concerts, which have been featured in major publications like the Washington Post, Vibe Magazine, and the New York Times. In 2022, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture recently launched a digital experience chronicling the HBCU homecoming phenomenon, prominently featuring the event. Yardfest performers have included Grammy winners Jay-Z, Drake, Nipsey Hussle, Ludacris, T-Pain, Kanye West, Faith Evans, and CeeLo Green, along with the Notorious B.I.G., Lil Uzi Vert, Jeezy, and Grammy, Oscar, and Golden Globe winner Common.
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"One of One: Howard University Homecoming 2025" will showcase the many ways the university is in a category of its own. Unique among the world’s colleges and universities, Howard has often stood alone as one of one— either as the only, the first, or at the top. The theme recognizes the fearlessness with which Howard has pursued truth and service since 1867, the relentlessness with which it pursues it today, and the invention with which it will lead in the future. “One of One” also references unity among all members of the Howard community in the perpetuation of the Howard legacy as we celebrate the 101st anniversary of Howard's Homecoming.