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Alpha Phi Alpha marks 100 years on the campus of the University of Minnesota
Source It started with 12 black men at the University of Minnesota who started a social club in 1911. The club became a chapter of the national Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity in 1912. In less than a week, the fraternity will celebrate its 100th year on campus. The historically black fraternity will celebrate in conjunction [...]
University of Nebraska Sigmas Holds Sleepout for Homeless Donations
Source Members and friends of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity collect donations to help the homeless. They are calling it a sleepout. Beginning at 9:00 p.m. Thursday, some 20 members and friends of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity camped out on both sides of Vine near 20th Street. Their mission, to collect donations to help [...]
Actor, Alpha Frater Hill Harper’s New National Partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Continue reading on Examiner.com Actor Hill Harper’s New National Partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research
Source Actor Hill Harper is supporting a new national partnership with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC), Call to Service for St. Jude initiative, which launched earlier this month. “NPHC organizations have deep roots in education and making a difference in the lives of our youth. Engaging this richly diverse membership [...]
Marshall Deltas, Alphas Host Rally Seeking Answers in Trayvon Martin Case
Source The shooting death of Trayvon Martin is one that has struck a chord with communities throughout the country, and students at Marshall University gathered Friday to remember Martin and to make the national conversation a local one. More than 100 students, faculty and community members gathered at the Memorial Student Center Plaza for its [...]
McDonald’s promotes Alpha Frater Don Thompson to CEO as Jim Skinner retires
Source McDonald’s Corp. CEO Jim Skinner is retiring and will be succeeded by the company’s No. 2 executive, President and Chief Operating Officer Don Thompson. The Oak Brook-based fast-food company said this evening that Mr. Skinner, 67, will leave the company and the board on June 30 after 41 years. Mr. Thompson, 48, will take [...]
Kappa Frater Winston Myers II, named South DeKalb YMCA Executive Director
Source Winston Myers II, currently director of the South DeKalb YMCA, has been named executive director of the new 57,000 square foot Wade Walker YMCA under construction and slated to open in late summer 2012. Myers starts his new job April 1. In a press release announcing his new position, Myers said: “This new Y is an [...]
Omega Frater Jeff Tate Named To Savoy Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America
Jeff Tate, Vice President, Finance, Dow Performance Plastics has been named to Savoy Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America 2012 issue. Savoy is geared toward African-American business professionals and profiles prominent African-American business leaders. With 100,000 readers per issue, the magazine serves as a premier forum for issues of workplace diversity and [...]
Detroit to Host 81st Alpha Kappa Alpha Great Lakes Regional Conference
On April 11-15, 2012, Detroit will serve as the home of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® 81st Great Lakes Regional Conference! With over 1,200 members expected, from across five (5) states, the economic impact on the city of Detroit will be considerable. According to the Detroit Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau (DMCVB), a conference [...]
Students Receive College Scholarships At 50th Annual North Jersey Delta Benefit Luncheon
The North Jersey Minerva Corporation in partnership with the North Jersey Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. announces its 50th Annual Scholarship Benefit will be held Saturday, April 21, 2012 at The Venetian in Garfield, New Jersey. The event will begin at 10:00AM with a breakfast card party followed by the luncheon at [...]
South Jersey Sigmas and Zetas Celebrate Reading & Black History
The Men of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc, Zeta Rho Sigma Chapter, Amicae and our Sisters of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Omicron Omicron Zeta, Gamma Nu Zeta and Chi Rho Zeta chapters celebrated Black History Month by doing a Read-In at Wiggins College Prepatory Lab School in Camden, New Jersey. Each Zeta and Sigma was [...]
