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Sigma Frater Brandon P. Brown To Receive National Award For Service To Higher Education
Source Having reached his 36th birthday in September, Brandon Pendarvis Brown is a testament to the old adage that age is just a number, based on the many accomplishments Brown has garnered in such a relatively short period. He’s about to add one more accolade to the long list of achievements. In good company, Brown, [...]
Obituary: Sigma Frater Samuel A. Bradley
Source Wake services will be held at 6 p.m. Friday and funeral services will be held at noon Saturday at St. John AME Church in Marion. Samuel was born on June 2, 1921, in Bishopville, a son and one of nine children of Robert Sr. and Mary Margaret Samuel Bradley. The Bradley home, in the [...]
Sigma Frater Kevin Saunderson: Seven things you didn’t know about the techno music pioneer
Source Techno pioneer Saunderson recently relaunched influential US techno outfit Inner City, whose first two albums had combined sales of more than six million, for a new album due early next year. We find out more about the 47-year-old New York DJ. He really wasn’t cut out to be a pop star. ‘It was a [...]
Phi Beta Sigma Takes a Stance on Hazing
Source The General Board of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., unanimously voted to authorize the Fraternity, in concert with the International President, to expel any member found guilty of hazing. The decision was made on January 7, 2012 at the winter of the General Board in Memphis, Tennessee. International President Jimmy Hammock has expressed [...]
Obituary: Sigma Frater Johnny Gorman, 77
Source Johnny Gorman, 77, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, at his home surrounded by his loving family. A home-going celebration of life will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 14, at Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church in Niles. The visitation will begin at 10 a.m. and run until the time [...]
Sigma Frater Braylon Edwards pays for 100 students to attend college
Source Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards is a man of his word. And because he is, 100 students are going to college on his dime. In 2007, Edwards promised 100 Cleveland high school students that he would pay for their college tuition—a total value of $1 million—if they maintained grade point averages at 2.5 or [...]
Obituary: Sigma Frater Andre Coe, 36
Source The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) mourns the loss of member Andre Coe, a former editorial assistant in the Dallas bureau of The Associated Press and the cooperative’s regional news desk in Phoenix, died Friday. He was 36. “I mourn the passing of a courageous colleague whose passion for journalism was evident even [...]
The NPHC of Marquette University Presents The 2012 Brew City Stomp Down Step Show
The National Pan-Hellenic Council of Marquette University Presents The 2012 Brew City Stomp Down Step Show Sponsored By City Year Milwaukee On Saturday, February 4, 2012, the National Pan-Hellenic Council of Marquette University once again brings you Wisconsin’s largest step show- and this time it’s BETTER THAN EVER. Featuring the organizations of the Divine Nine: Alpha [...]
Sigma Frater Chris Rey, Spring Lake’s Mayor-elect is focused on town’s future
Source Cheers erupted when a young man walked into the Expo Room at the Holiday Inn Bordeaux & Convention Center on election night. Necks craned as the crowd watching the results come in turned to see who was demanding so much attention. Many of them didn’t recognize the lean, immaculately dressed man with the boyish [...]
Sigma Frater Jonathan Solomon Named National Greek All-Star
It has been a whirlwind year for Langston University’s Jonathan Solomon since he first pledged to be a member of Phi Beta Sigma during the fall semester of 2010. A week after being accepted as a member, he was voted in as President. Then, the chapter was named the International Collegiate Model Chapter of the [...]
