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Professor at Temple University; author; activist; TV political commentator and host of Our World with Black Enterprise. [5] Joseph B. Johnson. Gamma Psi. Ph.D; former president of Grambling State University (1977 - 1991); former president of Talladega College (1991 - 1998). [6] Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. Omicron.
Food and beverage. J. Paul Austin, president of Coca-Cola from 1962 to 1971; chairman from 1970 to 1981 (Atlanta Alumni) Harry A. Bullis, Chairman of the Board, General Mills (Alpha Eta) Leonard Firestone, Founder, Firestone Vineyards (Alpha Zeta) Norman R. Klug, President, Miller Brewing (Alpha Psi) Automotive.
Robert Louis Johnson (born April 8, 1946) is an American entrepreneur, media magnate, executive, philanthropist, and investor. [1][2][3][4][5][6] He is the co-founder of BET, which was acquired by Viacom in 2001. [2][3] He also founded RLJ Companies, a holding company that invests in various business sectors. [3][7] Johnson is the former ...
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. (ΚΑΨ) is a historically African American fraternity. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911, at Indiana University Bloomington, it has never restricted membership based on color, creed, or national origin though membership traditionally is dominated by those of African heritage.
Reginald Lewis. Reginald F. Lewis (December 7, 1942 – January 19, 1993), was an American businessman. He was one of the richest Black American men in the 1980s, and the first African-American to build a billion-dollar company: TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc. [1]
Calvin Otis Butts III (July 19, 1949 – October 28, 2022) was an American academic administrator and a senior pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, which historically was the largest black church in New York City. He led the Abyssinian Development Corporation, which focuses on Harlem, and was president of the State University of New York ...
Died. November 28, 1950. (1950-11-28) (aged 63) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Alma mater. Howard University (BA) Ethel Hedgeman Lyle (born Ethel Hedgeman, sometimes spelled Hedgemon; February 10, 1887 – November 28, 1950) was a founder of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (ΑΚΑ) at Howard University in 1908. It was the first sorority ...
John Clay Holmes. . . (m. 1917–1946) . [1][2] Parent (s) Rev. Lewis Flagg and Callie McAdoo [1] Margaret Flagg Holmes (September 6, 1886 – January 29, 1976) was one of the sixteen founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, at Howard University in Washington, DC. It was the first sorority founded by African-American women.