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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.
United States Army. Rank. Platoon sergeant. Battles/wars. World War II. Ralph David Abernathy Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. As a leader of the civil rights movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jamal Harrison Bryant was born on May 21, 1971, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Richard and Cecelia Bryant (née Williams). He has a younger sister. He was raised in Baltimore, Maryland, where, as a child, he attended his father's church Bethel A.M.E. Church. He preached his first sermon when he was just a bean head baby at Bethel titled "No ...
Kappa Alpha Psi sponsors programs providing community service, social welfare, and academic scholarship through the Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation. It is a supporter of the United Negro College Fund and Habitat for Humanity. Kappa Alpha Psi is a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) and the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC
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 ...
Methodist Episcopal Church Bishop and pastor. Known for. Founding Omega Psi Phi. Edgar Amos Love (September 10, 1891 – May 1, 1974) was an American bishop with the Methodist Episcopal and a civil rights spokesman. [1][2][3][4] He is also noted as a founder of Omega Psi Phi, the first international fraternity founded at an HBCU. [5][6]
Leontine T. Kelly. Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly (March 5, 1920 – June 28, 2012) was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church. She was the second woman elevated to the position of bishop within the United Methodist Church, and the first African American woman.
Branch was born in Hamlet, North Carolina, the fourth son of an African Methodist Episcopal Zion minister [1][2] After graduating from high school in Mamaroneck, New York, Branch attended Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, where he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He then transferred to Temple University in Philadelphia.