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Zeta Phi Beta aims to educate on history of D.C. school names

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The Women of the Dove Foundation are determined to provide the answers in a booklet, “What’s in a Name: Profiles of the Trailblazers.”
The group, a nonprofit branch of Zeta Phi Beta sorority, received a $2,500 grant from the District’s Humanities Council and Historic Preservation Officeto begin its work.
“So many people have been excited about it,” said Barbara Harvey, [...]

Annual celebration of Greek Life promotes unity through 5K charity race, other activities

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Greek Week is an annual event filled with a number of games, activities and charity events designed to promote positive relationships between the University’s fraternities and sororities, as well as promoting Greek Life as a whole.

“(Greek Week) is an opportunity to get to know another fraternity that you don’t normally work with or a sorority [...]

Pompano Beach Deltas to hold annual Teen Health Summit

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The Pompano Beach Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. will hold its annual Teen Health Summit on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at the North Regional/Broward College Library in Coconut Creek. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the library’s auditorium.
The purpose of the event is to provide students [...]

Delta Soror Lorene Carter Poole, dies at 77

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Services for Mrs. Lorene Carter Poole will be held at 2 p.m. (viewing at 1 p.m.) Thursday at St. John Baptist Church with entombment in the Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be held this evening, beginning at 7 p.m. at Leevy’s Funeral Home, Taylor Street Chapel.
Following an extended illness, Lorene Carter Poole departed this life [...]

Univ. of Alabama AKAs lead march to honor first black students

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A few drops of rain were not going to stop the Alpha Kappa Alphas from celebrating the integration into the University Tuesday night as they marched on from the steps of Gorgas Library to Foster Auditorium.
“It begins with you,” said Brenda Elliot, assistant director of athletics academic programs.
The Theta Sigma Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha [...]

Alpha Kappa Alpha Mourns Passing of 26th International President, Linda M. White

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The 250,000 members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, in 958 chapters worldwide, are mourning the death of Linda Marie White, the organization’s 26th international president.
From 1960, the year she joined Alpha Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha at Clark University in Atlanta, GA, until her passing, White devoted her life to fulfilling AKA’s mission: “to [...]

Kappa Frater Dr. J. Laws Nickens Sr., dentist, dies at 91

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Dr. J. Laws Nickens Sr., a retired dentist, died Feb. 21 of lymphoma at his Roland Park Place home. He was 91.
Born in Northumberland County, Va., he was a 1938 graduate of Douglass High School, where he was a center on the football team and its captain. He attended Morgan State University, but his studies [...]

Texas A&M Greeks giving back during spring break

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More than 100 Aggie Greeks – representing about 20 fraternities and sororities at Texas A&M University – will take part in the Second Annual Greek Life Mission Trip during their spring break. The group will be one of 30 national teams challenged with rebuilding hurricane-damaged homes and businesses in Lake Charles, La.
For the second year, [...]

Detroit Alphas co-host small business start-up, financing conference on March 31st

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Current and aspiring African-American entrepreneurs can learn how to start a business — and find their own road to economic recovery — at the 2010 Black Business Conference on Wednesday, March 31. It is from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Greater Grace Temple, 23500 W. Seven Mile Road, Detroit.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing will deliver [...]

Univ. of West Georgia Omegas co-host “Sexual Assault Alert: The Real Truth”

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Last week, the University of West Georgia’s community was rattled when a young woman was sexually assaulted while walking on campus. News of the incident caused much concern, and several organizations made an effort to ease the minds of the students.
On March 4, C.A.P.E., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. and the Carroll Rape Crisis Center, [...]