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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.
In 1883, the same fraternity established a chapter at McGill University. Other early foundations were Kappa Alpha Society at Toronto in 1892 and at McGill in 1899, and Alpha Delta Phi at Toronto in 1893 and at McGill in 1897. The first sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, was established in Toronto in 1887. In 1902, the first international chapter of ...
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.
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. [20] The Kappa Alpha Psi Foundation was conceived by Oliver S. Gumbs, the 23rd Grand Polemarch.
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]
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. She went on to earn a Master's in Philosophy at Columbia University in New York.
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 ...
In 1924, Dickerson was awarded Kappa Alpha Psi's highest award, the Laurel Wreath. [25] He served as the grand polemarch, or president, of Kappa Alpha Psi from 1924 to 1926. [ 26 ] When James B. Parsons , the first African American district judge in a U.S. district court, applied for a faculty membership in Kappa Alpha Psi, Dickerson attended ...