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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 [...]

Kappa Frater, Rev. Marcus D. Davidson to be installed at New Mount Olive Baptist Church

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The community is invited to join New Mount Olive Baptist Church and the Community at the Official Pastoral Installation Service of Rev. Marcus D. Davidson on Sunday, March 21, 2010 beginning at 4 p.m. at New Mount Olive Baptist Church, 400 N.W. Ninth Ave., Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
On Jan. 1, 2010, Rev. Marcus D. Davidson accepted [...]

Kappa Frater Robert Robinson, dies at 52

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Robert L. Robinson, 52, of Rand was called home on March 1, 2010.
He was born March 7, 1957, in Charleston.
He was a graduate of Dupont High School, a 1982 graduate of West Virginia State College, a member of Grace Bible Church and a brother of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
He had over 20 years of [...]

Anne Arundel Community College Appoints Kappa Frater Ivan L. Harrell, Ph.D., Dean of Student Services

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Harrell earned a doctorate from Florida State University, a Master of Education degree from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wittenberg University.
He has 10 years of experience in student services with expertise in student retention and success, behavioral intervention and strategic planning. Since February 2006, Harrell served as coordinator for student affairs [...]

[Photos] Sprite Step Off 2010: Atlanta, GA

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20 Feb 10: Sprite Step Off 2010 in Atlanta, GA @ the Atlanta Civic Center
Photography by Quinne Lowe of Crush Media Group & Progressive Greek

Michigan Tech Kappas, local restaurant partner up for Haiti

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Tuesday, January 12, 2010…the day that changed the country of Haiti forever.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook the island nation, its epicenter just ten miles from Haiti’s capital city.  The quake, coupled with the dozen or so aftershocks since then have all but destroyed parts of the country.  Millions have been displaced, tens of thousands have [...]

Military D9 Greeks host comedy slam in Iraq

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The lights dimmed and music played as poets and actors performed on stage during the Joint Base Balad Poetry Slam Feb. 11 at Morale, Welfare and Recreation east.
The Poetry Slam was sponsored by the JBB Pan-Hellenic Council, known as the Divine Nine in the United States, which consists of nine historically black Greek fraternal and [...]

Second chances lit the path to lawyer’s success

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As I sat on a hospital floor wondering whether my mother would live or die, the heartbreaking realization set in that she had sacrificed so much for me to be a successful college graduate. Yet there I sat, a college dropout. My mother — the innocent victim of a tragic crime — suffered three gunshot [...]

Howard AKAs and Kappas step to ATL for Sprite Step Off

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Campus is buzzing as students are anticipating a weekend in Atlanta to support Alpha Chapter, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, and the Howard University chapter, the Xi Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Incorporated in the Annual Sprite Step Off Competition. Students will be leaving at midnight heading to Atlanta, to not only support the two organizations, [...]

Kappa Frater McKinley Armstrong, dies at 81

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McKinley Armstrong, 81, the coach and athletic director who led the storied McKinley Tech High School basketball team to three D.C. Interhigh championships from 1968 through 1971, died of prostate cancer Feb. 11 at Washington Hospital Center.

Mr. Armstrong formed and coached a team known as “the Magnificent Seven” when the McKinley Tech Trainers battled for [...]