Consideration, DevaSTating Divas! It’s time to throw up your ‘mids for the 2025 Honorary Members of your prestigious sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.!
Throughout day two (July 9) of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.’s 57th Nationwide Conference, eight extraordinary girls have been proudly welcomed into the 2025 Honorary Member class of the traditionally Black Sorority, representing a dynamic vary of fields, together with politics, leisure, enterprise, schooling, athletics and advocacy. Amongst this 12 months’s honorees are Grammy-winning rapper and actress Queen Latifah, whisky connoisseur Fawn Weaver, and Oscar-nominated actress Danielle Brooks, girls who exemplify Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.’s dedication to excellence, service and social impression.
“This 12 months’s class of Honorary Members represents a powerhouse group of barrier-breaking girls throughout politics, leisure, enterprise, sports activities, and social impression,” stated Delta Worldwide President Elsie Cooke-Holmes, in a press launch printed Wednesday. “From a trailblazing political strategist to an acclaimed actress and vocalist, a legendary Olympic athlete to a pioneering tech government, these girls embody excellence, service, and the unwavering pursuit of justice and fairness. Their collective affect spans boardrooms, levels, and grassroots actions—every one a pressure in her subject and a mirrored image of Delta’s enduring mission.”
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The Honorary Membership is the sorority’s highest honor, reserved for girls who’ve demonstrated distinctive achievement and made lasting contributions to their fields and society. Every inductee’s work displays the mission and values of Delta’s 5-Level Programmatic Thrust: financial growth, instructional development, worldwide consciousness, bodily and psychological well being, and political engagement.
These eight girls characterize the spirit of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc.: Daring, visionary, and pushed by function. Let’s meet them.
Meet the 2025 Honorary Members
Queen Latifah (Dana Owens)
A trailblazer in music, movie, and tv, Queen Latifah has earned Grammy, Emmy, Golden Globe, and NAACP Picture Awards. She broke new floor as the primary feminine rapper to obtain a star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame and continues to champion illustration throughout leisure. Outdoors of music, Latifah has been a staunch advocate for well being and housing. In March, the “U.N.I.T.Y” rapper was a key determine behind the Reality About Weight marketing campaign, spreading consciousness in regards to the risks of weight problems and heart problems, in keeping with USA As we speak.
The hip-hop legend was additionally an important pressure behind the RISE Residing challenge, an reasonably priced housing neighborhood that she launched alongside a bunch of actual property buyers in her hometown of Newark in 2024, NewsOne beforehand reported.
Donna Brazile
A legendary political strategist and New York Occasions bestselling writer, Brazile broke obstacles as the primary Black girl to handle a U.S. presidential marketing campaign, operating the marketing campaign for former Vice President Al Gore. She twice served as interim Chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee and led the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute, in keeping with her web site. At the moment, she continues her service on the DNC’s Guidelines and Bylaws Committee.
Brazile is the writer of the bestselling political memoir, Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in American Politics (2004) and Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-Ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump within the White Home (2017), a New York Occasions bestseller. She additionally co-authored For Coloured Women Who Have Thought-about Politics, which earned the 2019 NAACP Picture Award for Excellent Literary Work, Nonfiction. Her newest contribution seems within the upcoming anthology, Wake Up America: Black Ladies on the Way forward for Democracy.
The 65-year-old trailblazer has additionally prolonged her knowledge and information to the classroom, serving as an adjunct professor within the Ladies and Gender Research Division at Georgetown College and as an educator with the King Endowed Chair in Public Coverage at Howard College. She has lectured at almost 250 faculties and universities, instructing on informative subjects like range, fairness, and inclusion; girls in management; and civility in American politics.