It’s hard to believe that 2018 marks 40 years as a member of my beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. I was at the University of Southern California in 1978 when I attended the Rush event to consider joining my father’s sister organization. My father was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first fraternal organization established by African American college men at Cornell University in 1906. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. was the first of its kind, too, having been established at Howard University, just two years later in 1908. These forty years as part of the “Divine Nine” have not just been wonderful, but inspiring. Continue reading “Black Fraternal Life”
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