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Alpha Kappa Alpha has a membership of more than 300,000 women internationally, with 90,000 active members of diverse backgrounds and professions. [2] Graduate members constitute the largest percentage of membership. [88] Alpha Kappa Alpha has more than 1000 chapters, located in the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, and South Africa. [89]
Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States. This list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors (commonly referred to as AKAs [1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.
These organisations included Jack and Jill and Alpha Kappa Alpha as well as other prominent organizations like the N.A.A.C.P., [3] the League of Women Voters, and the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. [2]: 104 Most were members of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. [2]: 104 The group's name was suggested by Wall as a symbol of enduring friendship. [5]
AKA has more than 360,000 members and Zeta Phi Beta has more than 125,000. “There is so much at stake in this moment,” Harris said in her speech at the Zeta Phi Beta conference.
The 116-year-old Black sorority has more than 360,000 members and focuses on leadership, scholarship, service, and excellence.
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In honor of her role as founder of AKA, in 1926 Alpha Kappa Alpha designated her Honorary Basileus, the only member with that title. [9] In 1951, the sorority established the Ethel Hedgeman Lyle Endowment Fund. [9] In 1994 Lyle's granddaughters, Andrea Lyle-Wilson and Muriel Lyle-Smith, were inducted as honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha. [9]
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.