Sigma Frater Kevin Saunderson: Seven things you didn’t know about the techno music pioneer

Source Techno pioneer Saunderson recently relaunched influential US techno outfit Inner City, whose first two albums had combined sales of more than six million, for a new album due early next year. We find out more about the 47-year-old New York DJ. He really wasn’t cut out to be a pop star. ‘It was a [...]

Knoxville Alumni Alphas Receive Outstanding Alumni Chapter of the Year Award

Source The Alpha Mu Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. won the 2011 Outstanding Alumni Chapter of the Year Award at its district convention in Johnson City. The Knoxville chapter has been in existence since 1930. The criteria for the award is based on fraternity and community service, as well as developing programs [...]

Police Investigate Death of Alpha Frater Dwyone Joiner

Source Family, friends and the Cody High School community are mourning the loss of a long-time teacher. The body of 33-year-old Dwyone Joiner was found in his Sussex Street home in Detroit Wednesday. Detroit Police say he was killed from a gun shot wound, but investigators are not releasing any other details into the death. [...]

Phi Beta Sigma Takes a Stance on Hazing

Source The General Board of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., unanimously voted to authorize the Fraternity, in concert with the International President, to expel any member found guilty of hazing. The decision was made on January 7, 2012 at the winter of the General Board in Memphis, Tennessee. International President Jimmy Hammock has expressed [...]

Metro Detroit AKAs Giving Back

Source It is not always easy to put the needs of others before your own, but that feeling you get when you serve your fellow man is phenomenal. That is something Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior believed in and my sorority sisters do, too. On the day when the nation remembers the dream, the legacy [...]

Omega Psi Phi members ‘try to be a presence’ to black youths

Source They are the black men wearing royal purple and old gold who volunteer to deliver Friend-in-Deed meals to the poor of Springfield. They help not-for-profit groups with fundraising. They participate in voter registration drives. And they mentor and provide scholarships to disadvantaged youth while enjoying the fellowship of other black men whose roads to [...]