All Entries in the "Awards & Recognition" Category
Sigma Frater Brandon P. Brown To Receive National Award For Service To Higher Education
Source Having reached his 36th birthday in September, Brandon Pendarvis Brown is a testament to the old adage that age is just a number, based on the many accomplishments Brown has garnered in such a relatively short period. He’s about to add one more accolade to the long list of achievements. In good company, Brown, [...]
SGRho Soror Tonya Lee Williams Becomes Recipient of MLK Achievement Award
Source Actress Tonya Lee Williams will receive the Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement Award at the Black Theatre Workshop (BTW)’s 26th Annual Vision Celebration Gala a week from Saturday in Montreal for her contribution in the Black performing arts. Williams remains best known as fan favorite Dr. Olivia Williams on the top-rated daytime soap, The Young [...]
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 [...]
Remembering King: Classmates, colleagues recall influence
Source A classmate. A fraternity brother. A colleague in the American struggle for civil rights. A high school student. Their lives intersected with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Decades later, on the holiday celebrating King’s life and the civil rights movement he led, these contemporaries of King recall how the young preacher from Atlanta [...]
AKA Soror Kristen Bridges Among Top Student-Athletes at Ole Miss
Source A West Jones High School graduate is among 10 Ole Miss student-athletes selected to the 2011-12 Who’s Who Among students In American Universities and Colleges for the University of Mississippi. Jones County resident Kristen Bridges, daughter of Rev. W. E. and Janice Bridges, is among those selected for the honor. She is a member [...]
Alpha Kappa Alpha Arrives at Washington and Lee University
Source At Howard University in 1908, sisters Beulah and Lillie Burke helped to found Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) sorority. At Washington and Lee University 103 years later, sisters Devin Cooper ’11 and Amber Cooper ’12 helped to found a W&L chapter of that Greek organization. “We tease them and call them the Burke sisters,” said Tamara [...]
SGRho Soror Cherrie Lemon, First African American Drum Major for Purdue University
Source Name: Cherrie Lemon Major: Chemistry Year: Senior Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri After four years of marching band in high school, Cherrie Lemon was done. She decided not to join the Purdue “All-American” Marching Band her freshman year, but that all changed when she heard the tapping of drums after class. Since her sophomore year, [...]
Zeta Soror Velvetta Reid-Hairston Recognized by Biltmore Who’s Who Executive and Professional Registry
Source Velveeta Reid-Hairston, President and Owner of Family Training and Assessment Services, LLC, has been selected as an Honored Member of the Biltmore Who’s Who Executive and Professional Registry. The selection recognizes Velveeta Reid-Hairston’s commitment to excellence in Community Social Work and Networking. Reid-Hairston, who received her undergraduate degree from Livingstone College and a Master’s Degree in [...]
Sigma Frater Jonathan Solomon Named National Greek All-Star
It has been a whirlwind year for Langston University’s Jonathan Solomon since he first pledged to be a member of Phi Beta Sigma during the fall semester of 2010. A week after being accepted as a member, he was voted in as President. Then, the chapter was named the International Collegiate Model Chapter of the [...]
