Soror Linda M. White to be honored at APhiA Event...
 

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority International President to be honored by the
Atlanta Graduate Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha

August 12, 2003- Linda M. White, the 26th International President of Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., will receive one of the Spirit of Maynard
Jackson
Awards during the Public Program of the Atlanta Graduate Chapter (Eta Lambda)
on Sunday, September 7, 2003 at 4:00 p.m. The Honorable Marc Morial, former
Mayor of New Orleans and the President and CEO of the National Urban League
will
give the keynote address. Rev. Herman "Skip Mason, president of the local
Atlanta Chapter said, "we are honored that Ms.White is joining us for this
event and further delighted to have the opportunity to present her this award
for
achieving the signal honor of serving as the leader of this premier
organization for African-American women. The AKA's have a stellar record for
their work
both locally, nationally and globally. "

Ms. White, who was initiated into the sorority in Atlanta at Clark College (
now Clark Atlanta University) will join other honorees for this event
including Construction magnate Herman J. Russell; Alexis Scott, Publisher of
the
Atlanta Daily World; Mrs. Coretta Scott King, Founder/King Center for Non
Violent
Social Change; former NBA legend Walt Bellamy, Mayor Patsy Jo Hilliard of
East Point, Georgia, Mrs. Ora Bell Sherman, Legendary Hostess at Paschals'
Restaurant, Mother Mary Hughes, Community Advocate and the Atlanta Alumni
Chapters
of Kappa Alpha Psi, Phi Beta Sigma and Omega Psi Phi Fraternities.

The Second Annual Public Program will honor the legacy of the late Maynard H.
Jackson, first African-American Mayor of the City of Atlanta and a member of
the Eta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. The late mayor was
initiated into the fraternity in 1956 at Morehouse College. During the
program,
chapter officers and the local undergraduate chapter officers from Morehouse
College, Clark Atlanta University and Georgia State University will be
installed.


Eta Lambda Chapter, the seventh graduate chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha
Fraternity was established on May 20, 1920. Former members include the late
Alonzo
Franklin Herndon (founder of Atlanta Life Insurance Company); Heman Perry
(founder
of Citizens Trust Bank); former college presidents John Hope and Hugh Gloster
of Morehouse College; Matthew Davage, James P. Brawley and Thomas Cole of
Clark College , now Clark Atlanta University; John H. Lewis and John
Middleton
of Morris Brown College; and Austin T.Walden, first African-American Judge in
Atlanta. Current members include Ambassador Andrew Young, Dr. James Gavin,
President Morehouse School of Medicine; Atlanta City Councilmen Ivory Young
and
Derrick Boazman; Georgia Supreme Court Justices Horace Ward and Robert Benham
and Gregory Baranco of Baranco Car Dealership.

Currently, there are 245 members in the Atlanta chapter housed at the Alpha
Community Center in East Point. The chapter recently leased a portion of the
building to the Kipp Charter School program. This summer at the 97th
Anniversary Convention in Detroit, Michigan, Eta Lambda presented a check
for
$50,000
to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Foundation in memory of Dr. King, a
member of Alpha Phi Alpha and a former member of Eta Lambda Chapter. The
chapter's signature mentorship program "The Sons of Alpha" which targets
junior
and
senior males from the Metropolitan Atlanta School system along with Project
Alpha and the Fatherhood Initiative are key programs of the chapter.

All members of the Metropolitan Atlanta Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority are invited to come out and share in this occasion with President
White
and
the members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. The event is free and opened
to the public. Please share and email this release to your local members and
chapters. Formal invitations will be mailed to local chapter presidents.

Library of Congress Celebrates African American History Month with a Tribute to National Black Institutions
By U.S. Library of Congress


Jan 27, 2006, 06:44



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Library of Congress Celebrates African American History Month with a Tribute to National Black Institutions
The Library of Congress will present a roundtable discussion featuring African American leaders for its 2006 celebration of African American History Month at 10 a.m., Feb. 2, in the Mumford Room, sixth floor, James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C. Co-sponsored by the Office of Workforce Diversity and the 2006 African American History Month Planning Committee, the event is free and open to the public.

The program, “Celebrating Community: A Tribute to Black Fraternal, Social and Civic Institutions,” will include presentations from the leadership of five major African American organizations.

Gwendolyn E. Boyd is the immediate past national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., which has a membership of more than 200,000 predominantly African American, college-educated women. Founded in 1913, the private, nonprofit organization provides assistance and support through established programs in local communities throughout the world.

Margaret J. Cooper is the national president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs (NACWC) Inc. and Youth Affiliates. NACWC was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1896 with the merger of the National Federation of Afro-American Women, the Women's Era Club of Boston and the Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C.

Samuel C. Hamilton is the grand polemarch of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., which was founded in 1911 on the campus of Indiana University. Fashioning achievement as its purpose, Kappa Alpha Psi’s mission was to unite college men of culture, patriotism and honor in a bond of fraternity.

Darryl R. Matthews Sr. is the general president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Founded at Cornell University in 1906, the fraternity is celebrating 100 years as the first continuously operating, black collegiate Greek letter fraternity. Alpha Phi Alpha has been in the forefront of the African American community’s struggle for civil rights, and its membership has included such notables as W.E.B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Edward Brooke, Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall.

Linda M. White is the supreme basileus of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Founded in 1908, the sorority became America's first Greek-letter organization established by black college women. The sorority’s mission includes cultivating and encouraging high scholastic and ethical standards, promoting unity and friendship among college women and maintaining a progressive interest in college life.

The participants will respond to questions from the audience. Representatives from the remaining sororities and fraternities (Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc., Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.), who have been invited to attend the program, will be introduced.

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