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Rudy Gay Sr. Mu. original member of the singing group Ace Spectrum, which signed with Atlantic Records (Don't Send Nobody Else, Live and Learn, Keep Holdin' On, etc.) Webster Lewis. Alpha. composer, musician, educator; Honorable Founder of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. (deceased) [6] Rick Jackson. former news broadcaster for NBC, CBS, and the ...
Website. www.iotaphitheta.org. Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc. ( ΙΦΘ) is a historically African American fraternity. It was founded on September 19, 1963, at Morgan State University (then Morgan State College) in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the fifth largest Black Greek Lettered Fraternity. [4] Members of the close-knit afrocentric ...
He is a member of Iota Phi Theta fraternity. According to a DNA analysis conducted under the auspices of the TV program Know Your Heritage, he is descended mainly from the Ashanti people of Ghana. Rush attributed his election to Congress to Tony Robbins. His heroes include Abraham Lincoln, Kit Carson, and Huey P. Newton.
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. 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 ...
List of Iota Phi Theta chapters. Following is a list of Iota Phi Theta chapters, both collegiate and alumni. Iota Phi Theta is a historically African American fraternity founded in 1963 at Morgan State University in Maryland. [1] [2] Its chapters start as colonies and are assigned a Greek letter chapter designation after demonstrating viability ...
Founders. Phi Beta Sigma founders: A. Langston Taylor, ( first row, center ), Leonard F. Morse ( first row; third from right) and Charles I. Brown ( first row; third from left) with charter members of Phi Beta Sigma; Alpha Chapter in 1914. A. Langston Taylor, Esq. (January 29, 1890 - August 8, 1953) was the first international president of Phi ...
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.
Howard University. Occupation. Physician. Dr. Oscar James Cooper (1888–1972) was a physician and African-American cultural leader. He is known for cofounding Omega Psi Phi in Washington, D.C., the first fraternity founded by students at a historically black college. In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a charter member of the Pyramid Club .