All Entries Tagged With: "Barbara McKinzie"
Chicago judge: Alpha Kappa Alpha must turn over records
Source A judge in Chicago has ordered Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest historically black, college-based sorority, to provide a listing within 28 days of all of its bank and credit-card accounts so they can be reviewed by auditors looking into allegations the organization’s money has been misspent. The Chicago-based national sorority previously provided some [...]
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority to honor founding member Ethel Hedgeman Lyle with convention in St. Louis
Source The second century celebration of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority will begin in St. Louis on July 9 when more than 10,000 members of the group converge here in honor of sisterhood and service. The sorority will hold its first conference of this century at the St. Louis Convention Center. International President Barbara McKinzie will preside over [...]
One Alpha Kappa Alpha problem is solved, another isn’t
Source A former Alpha Kappa Alpha staffer says she was fired for telling officials about alleged improper spending of millions of dollars, including President Barbara A. McKinzie (left) funding a wax figure (right) of herself for a Baltimore museum. A judge dismissed a lawsuit to oust the leadership of the nation’s oldest black Greek-letter sorority, [...]
Alpha Kappa Alpha lawsuit dismissed
Source A D.C. Superior Court judge yesterday dismissed a widely reported lawsuit aimed at ousting the leadership of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest African-American sorority in the United States. Judge Natalia Combs Greene used just 17 pages — and several pointed words — to eviscerate the claims of the eight AKA member-plaintiffs who filed the [...]
Suit alleges firing from AKA headquarters because of whistleblowing
Source A former employee of a Hyde Park-based black sorority filed a wrongful termination lawsuit today, claiming she was purposely humiliated and fired for not going along with the sorority president’s improper spending of sorority funds. The suit comes about three months after a lawsuit filed in Washington D.C. on behalf of sorority members claimed Alpha [...]
Alpha Kappa Alpha chief responds to suit claims
The leadership of one of the nation’s most prominent black sororities, under fire for alleged misuse of the organization’s funds, is shooting back. Barbara McKinzie, the heavily criticized international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, responded to a list of allegations that appeared in a D.C. lawsuit filed by a group of disgruntled members. The dispute [...]
Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha want sorority’s president fired
Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest sorority for collegiate and professional black women, are asking a D.C. court to remove the group’s national leadership and order its president to return funds allegedly paid in contravention of the organization’s bylaws. The group’s national president, Barbara McKinzie, has come under fire for a long list [...]
