You know we needed to have fun the mirror-mesmerizing ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated who’ve spent the final 118 years exemplifying excellence whereas offering “service to all mankind” because the Phirst and Phinest members of the Divine Nine.
The storied group began because the imaginative and prescient of 9 school college students on the campus of Howard University in 1908. Since then, the sorority has flourished as a globally-impactful group of practically 300,000 college-trained members sure by the bonds of sisterhood and empowered by a dedication to servant-leadership throughout the globe.
As Alpha Kappa Alpha continues to vary the world, it’s “maintained its concentrate on the lifelong private {and professional} improvement of every of its members and galvanizing its membership into a corporation of revered energy and affect, constantly on the forefront of efficient advocacy and social change that ends in equality and fairness for all residents of the world,” per its website.
Notable members of the group embody Brandy, Maya Angelou, Phylicia Rashad, Gladys Knight, Toni Morrison, Lynn Whitfield, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith, Loretta Devine, Erica Campbell, Tika Sumpter, WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson, WWE star Jade Cargill, Urban One Chairwoman Cathy Hughes, former Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, and lots of extra who proceed to encourage generations of dynamic Black ladies.
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