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Decatur Alumnae Deltas Award $28,000 in College Scholarships
The Decatur Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated awarded over $28,000 in scholarships and book stipends to area students at its Annual Scholarship Recognition Breakfast at Beulah Missionary Baptist Church. More than 40 high school seniors from DeKalb County and surrounding areas competed in this year’s scholarship competition. Top honors went to the following winners: [...]
Birmingham Sigmas Win the 2012 Divine 9 Big Brothers Big Sisters Greek Bowling Tournament for Kids Sake
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc/ Birmingham Chapter of Alabama sponsored a team to participate in the Divine 9 Birmingham Big Brothers Big Sisters Greek Bowl for Kids Sake on April 14, 2012 at Brunswick Riverview Lanes. The team consisted of Khary Wray, Raphael Bryant, Joe and Laura Evans. The team raised $250 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of [...]
New Jersey Students Receive Scholarship Awards At Annual Benefit
The North Jersey Alumnae Chapter (NJAC) of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. held its 50th Annual Scholarship Benefit Luncheon on Saturday April 21, 2012 awarding more than $50,000 in scholarship awards. Sixteen New Jersey high school students received scholarship awards ranging from $1,000- $4,500. Renewal awards were given to 6 students currently enrolled in college [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Alpha Kappa Alpha launches asthma management program
Source Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has embarked upon a national multi-year campaign to educate the community about how to manage asthma through its Asthma Prevention and Management Initiative. The sorority will galvanize thousands of members who will fan out to the nearly 1,000 communities worldwide where Alpha Kappa Alpha has chapters. Locally, Mu Alpha Omega [...]
Phi Beta Sigma presents check from fund-raiser to girl needing surgery
Source After a successful Dollar Day fund-raiser to raise money to cover the expense of surgery for 12-year-old Dijae Dean, the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity presented a check for $2,000 to Dean Wednesday evening. Dean, who is inflicted with a non-cancerous tumor that is growing in her mouth and her mother Mizpha Mitchell joined the [...]
