All Entries in the "Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc." Category
AKA Soror, Tulsa community leader Helen Rouce taught by example
Source Helen Rouce taught some of her most-lasting life lessons by example. “She was the best bridge player in Tulsa and always took home the prize,” said Effie Lee, Rouce’s close friend of nearly 60 years. “But you enjoyed playing with Helen, because if you made a mistake, she wouldn’t gripe like some do.” Sweet-natured [...]
FAMU mourns the death of civil rights icon, AKA Soror Wilhelmina Jakes Street
Source Civil Rights icon and Florida A&M University (FAMU) alumna Wilhelmina Jakes Street passed away at the age 80. Jakes Street is highly celebrated for her role in initiating the Tallahassee Bus Boycott of 1956. Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, August 21, at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens Central, 499 Northwest 27th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, [...]
AKA Soror Delores Hutt-Longley, dies at 86
Source Delores Hutt Longley, affectionately known to her family and friends as Dee, passed away peacefully and was surrounded by her family on Saturday, August 7, 2010 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Clayton, after a brief illness. Delores was one of three children born to the union of Horace Hutt, Sr., and Beulah Rivere Hutt [...]
Gary Jazz in the Park theme is ‘The Way It Was’
Source The Greater Gary American Jazz Association and the Gary Parks Department will close the summer concert season with the annual Jazz in the Park from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Gateway Park, 4th Avenue and Broadway. Featured performers will be the Billy Foster Trio and Mike Carson. GGAJA president Errol T. Heffner said [...]
AKA Soror Marie Hilton-Carroll, dies at 98
Source Marie Hilton Carroll, 98, of Trenton, died Sunday at home surrounded by loved ones. Born in Trenton, Marie was educated in the Trenton public schools. She was a graduate of Oberlin College of Music where she received a bachelor’s degree and Columbia University’s Teachers College where she received a master’s degree. She had also [...]
Alpha Kappa Alpha joins the American Diabetes Association’s movement to stop Diabetes
Source Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (AKA) is joining forces with the American Diabetes Association’s African American Initiatives — known as Live EMPOWERED — to stop diabetes in the African American Community. The collaboration is driven by the reality that African Americans are greatly affected by diabetes; they are 1.8 times more likely to have type 2 diabetes [...]
Judge Erma Lucas Inge recalled as friend to law, youth
Source Bolivar Countians are mourning the loss of one incredibly influential woman, Judge Erma Lucas Inge. She served citizens of the county for many years as a justice court judge. Inge first ran for office in 1977. “I ran for an unexpired term in November 1977 and won from the 3rd District of Bolivar County,” [...]
All-Greek Picnic promotes sorority, fraternity togetherness
Source The Gary Inter-Greek Council believes in events that foster closeness among the nine historically black Greek-letter groups under its umbrella. One of the most popular ways to promote unity is the annual All-Greek Picnic; the latest one was Saturday at Lake Etta County Park in Gary. “The picnic has been going on for six [...]
AKA Soror Quiana Childress, soars toward lifelong dream
Source Quiana Childress made headlines during University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff’s historic May 2010 graduation when First Lady Michelle Obama cited her as an example of overcoming adversity and graduating summa cum laude with a 3.935 GPA. ABC Network picked up on Childress’ story of how helping others kept her believing in herself and World [...]
AKA Soror Thelma T. Wynn, teacher, traveler and humanitarian, dies at 101
Source When Thelma T. Wynn arrived in Liberia in West Africa in the 1940s, her eyes were opened to a world she hadn’t known existed. “She used to say that Liberia changed her life completely,” said her granddaughter Lisa Hopkins. “She said, ‘I brought back with me an unconditional acceptance of people of all races [...]
