Happy Founders’ Day!
You know we needed to have fun the kane-kommanding kasanovas of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. for his or her 115 years of service, scholarship, and shoulder-shimmies because the affluent fairly boys of the Divine 9.
Founded in 1911 on the campus of Indiana University, the storied group was the primary intercollegiate Fraternity included as a nationwide physique and stays the one Greek letter group with its Alpha Chapter on Indiana University’s campus.
Co-Founders Elder Watson Diggs and Byron Kenneth Armstrong (who beforehand attended Howard University) established the impartial Greek-letter group that elevate Black youths whereas stimulating them to accomplishments greater than may in any other case be imagined.
As the second oldest Black Greek Letter Fraternity, it’s amassed over 125,000 members with 700 undergraduate and alumni chapters the world over.
Local chapters take part in neighborhood outreach actions together with feeding the homeless, offering scholarships to younger individuals matriculating to school, serving as mentors to younger males, internet hosting public well being consciousness seminars, and numerous different initiatives.
Nationally, Kappa Alpha Psi hosts summer season enrichment camps whereas elevating cash for St. Jude Medical Research Center to help within the combat in opposition to childhood ailments.
Internationally, members have answered the decision to service by proudly serving our army and elevating funds to help these in want following pure disasters around the globe.
Notable members embody Ralph Abernathy, Wilt Chamberlin, Colin Kaepernick, Oscar Robertson, Cedric the Entertainer, Arthur Ashe, Mike Tomlin, Hakeem Jeffries, Gayle Sayers, Johnnie Cochran, John Singleton, Lance Gross, Bill Russell, Tavis Smiley, Marvin Sapp, Montell Jordan, Penny Hardaway, Ryan Clark, and lots of extra.
Who’s your favourite movie star Kappa and why? Tell us down under and luxuriate in our gallery of Kappa Kasanovas on the flip.
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