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The Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation, established in 1981, is the philanthropic arm of the fraternity and assists both alumni and undergraduate chapters in support of scholarships, after-school programs, and national projects such as Habitat for Humanity. [21] The Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation was conceived by Oliver S. Gumbs, the 23rd Grand Polemarch.
Lewis lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with his wife and daughter Sareya. Lewis's mother passed when he was 21 years old. Lewis committed to Christianity in December 2009 and became formally baptized shortly afterwards. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, 100 Greater Black Men of Little Rock, and Prince Hall masons. Lewis's talks ...
The campus of Indiana University at that time did not encourage the assimilation of Blacks. Kappa Alpha Psi is the second oldest existing collegiate historically Black Greek letter organization and the first intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a national body. [1]
The council's membership expanded as Alpha Phi Alpha (1931), Phi Beta Sigma (1931), Sigma Gamma Rho (1937), and Iota Phi Theta (1996) later joined. [5] In his book on BGLOs, The Divine Nine: The History of African-American Fraternities and Sororities in America (2001), Lawrence Ross coined the phrase "The Divine Nine" when referring to the ...
Barbara Anne McKinzie [1] (born January 2, 1954) [2] was from 2006 to 2010, the twenty-seventh International President of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first Greek-lettered sorority established and incorporated by African-American college women.
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From 1954 to 1957, Wilkins served as U.S. representative on the governing body of the International Labour Organization. [3] In 1959, Wilkins also became the first African-American president of the Judicial Council of the Methodist Church. [3] He also served as the Grand Polemarch (national president) of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. [2]
Nellie Pratt was born in Macon, Georgia on May 4, 1890. [1] In 1907, she entered Howard University's College of Arts and Sciences. It was the top historically black college in the nation, and she attended at a time when only .33% of African Americans and 5% of whites of eligible age attended any college.