I know you know a museum gift shop, bookstore or retailer that would mutually benefit from a partnership with us? We would love to play a bigger part in your community. Happy Founders' Day Kappa Alpha Psi The Hump Day Hot Topic We need the historian and philosopher to give us with trenchant pen, the story of our forefathers, and let our soul and body, with phosphorescent light, brighten the chasm that separates us. Thank you to the AAACC and NMAAHC for supporting black authors and culture. Happy Founder's Day 2012 - Kappa Kappa Psi Home Happy Founder’s Day 2012 Happy Founder’s Day 2012 Posted on Novemby podium Happy Founders Day 2012 Brothers and Friends of Kappa Kappa Psi, Today we celebrate the founding of our fraternity. Check out our books, including "The ABCs of HBCUs" and "The ABCs of Black Wall Street," and our HBCU Homecoming Puzzle.
More important than notoriety, however, is the amount of service that Kappa Men incorporate through our Guide Right program and Kappa Leagues that assist middle and high school aged boys on their journeys to manhood, among other philanthropic pursuits.Exciting news! HBCU Prep School's books and puzzles are now available at the African American Arts & Culture Complex Museum's gift shop in San Francisco! As a black-owned business, having our products featured in museum gift shops has always been on our "God Did" list, and we're grateful for this opportunity. Felton “Zip” Gayles (Morehouse), John Chaney (Temple), Leonard Hamilton (Florida State), Billy Joe (Central State/Florida A&M), and Mike Tomlin (Pittsburgh Steelers). Representatives Sanford Bishop (D-Ga), Al Lawson (D-Fl), Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the late John Conyers (D-Mich) and Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) Florida Lottery Secretary John Davis and Enterprise Florida CEO Jamal Sowell Actors Max “Goldie” Julien, Whitman Mayo, and Director John Singleton comedian Cedric the Entertainer and singer Montell Jordan Tennis legend Arthur Ashe NBA legends Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Roberston NFL legends Lem Barney and Gale Sayers coaching giants C.
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader General Daniel "Chappie" James, first Black 4-Star General U.S. Happy Founders' Day, Brothers We are so excited to head into the next 100 years with you all Today also kicks off our own renewal season for 2020 Alumni Association Membership. Ferguson decision that established Jim Crow segregation as the supreme law of the land what is often lost in translation today is that Jim Crow was not just relegated to the South, but was prevalent in parts of the North and Midwest.Īmong other notable past and present Kappa Men include Arturo Schomburg, noted historian and archivist Rev. Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Sigma Chi. Lest we forget that barely 15 years before Kappa was founded, the U.S. Zeta Tau Alphas nine Founders envisioned an organization that would perpetuate. Happy Founders Day - Phi Psi was founded by William Henry Letterman and Charles Page Thomas Moore on Februin Canonsburg, Pa. In the State of Indiana, even fewer Blacks attended college, thus, the decision of ten Black men, led by Elder Watson Diggs, to form a Bond and charter the Kappa Alpha Nu Fraternity on the Indiana University campus was not only a bold step-it was a necessary step for their literal survival. You see, back in 1911, this purpose was no small task as few Black men (or women) were able to actually matriculate at any college, including the many Historically Black Colleges and Universities that were located mostly in the Deep South. To that end, as to Kappa Alpha Psi, I submit that our organization was not founded primarily for bacchinallian purposes its founding purpose was to unite college men to honorably pursue " Achievement in Every Field of Human Endeavor." In fact, for every three headlines that heralds some incident of hazing, there are few to no articles highlighting the past and present efforts of BGLO members to perfect this wholly imperfect Union called "America." Happy Founders Day, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. That unfamiliarity makes it easy for some to conclude that BGLO's are "elitist" institutions that are more concerned with hazing and frivolity, than organizing men and women into a common cause of excelling in one's chosen endeavor-while providing meaningful service to one's community. Welcome back to another episode of Kappa Kappa Psi Presents Join Bang Co, VPSA, and many others as we wish each other a Happy 101st Founders Day. Founding and early members of Kappa Alpha Nu near the Indiana University campusįor those who are not familiar with BGLO's in general, and Kappa specifically, your unfamiliarity is due to the failure of mainstream history courses-and the mainstream media-to chronicle the achievements of Black people beyond rudimentary facts about slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement.
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