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Kappa Alpha Psi. 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.
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.
Kappa Alpha Psi ( ΚΑΨ ), an international historically Black fraternity, has chartered over 400 undergraduate chapters in the continental United States, plus alumni and international chapters. The fraternity has over 150,000 members and is divided into twelve provinces (districts/regions), with each chapter under the aegis of a province.
The founding members of the NPHC were Alpha Kappa Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, Delta Sigma Theta, and Zeta Phi Beta. 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.
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) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.
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.
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 founded by ...
The council was founded at Howard University, a historically Black university in Washington, D.C., in 1930 by Kappa Alpha Psi, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Omega Psi Phi, Delta Sigma Theta and Zeta Phi Beta ...