Sigmas, Deltas take top honors at Indiana University step show

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IU’s Phi Beta Sigma chapter is four for four.
The fraternity took home the top prize at the 26th Annual Statewide Step Competition for the fourth consecutive year Saturday at the IU Auditorium. The win secures a home-floor advantage for the team in 2011’s competition.
Despite inclement weather, step teams traveled to Bloomington from in- and out-of-state [...]

Ithaca educators earn African-American history month award

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If Abe and Denise Lee could share a lesson with Ithaca’s youth, it would be to work hard, value education, and understand that you are the masters of your own destiny.
Thankfully for Ithaca, the Lees have shared these lessons with thousands of children over their combined 60 years teaching in the Ithaca City School District, [...]

Portland Deltas turn old gas station into community center

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The moment things changed forever in the June Key Delta House project didn’t come when the remodeling of an old gas station in North Portland began in mid-January. The moment things changed forever for the small group of African American women in the Delta Sigma Theta sorority came more than two decades ago, when the [...]

Alpha Frater Bobby Smith sees swordplay as chance to make difference with kids

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Fencing saved Bobby C. Smith’s life — and he believes it can save more.
“Fencing, in the mind of a typical inner city youth, is seen as an elite sport for only the privileged in our society,” says the Wayne State University student.
“What does it mean to a poor immigrant child to compete and win in [...]

Flowood police search for missing Omega Frater Lester Jones

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Flowood police are looking for a 26-year-old Flowood native, who has been missing for almost a month.
Lester Jones, originally from Flowood but now as graduate student at Mississippi State University, was last seen in the Jackson metro area on Jan. 11.
He was driving a blue 2002 Ford Expedition.
He was majoring in biomedical engineering at MSU [...]

Alpha Kappa Alpha lawsuit dismissed

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A D.C. Superior Court judge yesterday dismissed a widely reported lawsuit aimed at ousting the leadership of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest African-American sorority in the United States.
Judge Natalia Combs Greene used just 17 pages — and several pointed words — to eviscerate the claims of the eight AKA member-plaintiffs who filed the suit last [...]

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