With so many similarities, you might wonder how people choose the organization that's right for them. They're able to steer you in a direction of where you may want to go when you're thinking about a career in life," she said.
"We have so many members who are lawyers and doctors and aerospace engineers and you know. Valerie Hollingsworth Baker is the international president of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. They often enjoy career support and provide career guidance. Because of the way they're structured, you can join a Divine Nine organization years after graduating from a four-year college. Most of the organizations have hundreds of chapters in the United States and even more abroad. And it's been a great benefit, but we have fun doing it," said Pierre Oscar of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. "My particular chapter donates over $26,000 a year for high school graduates.
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So are voter registration drives and fundraisers to provide scholarships. Leadership and mentoring programs for young people are cornerstones. "The undergrads and the alumni chapters actually do all the footwork."īoth undergraduate and alumni members of all the groups routinely collect and distribute food, clothing and other necessities. "At a national level, we set forth the initiatives," said Andre Manson, international president of Iota Phi Theta Fraternity. "The Divine Nine organizations have what we call graduate alumni chapters where we then go into our respective communities and continue the work that we started on our campus," said Randi Gray of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. we commit to service, sisterhood, brotherhood in the case of fraternities, for a lifetime," she said. "Many Greek organizations are started in college, and once your college years are over, you are pretty much finished with your activity with that organization. Mary Bentley Lamar is the North Atlantic regional director of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
that one true friend can get you through anything, and that's what we are to each other," said Harry Watson, president of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity's Harlem Chapter.īut they're also devoted to serving their communities, and it's not just a collegiate endeavor. I loved how they supported each other," said Shayla Crawford-Hymon, a senior at Montclair State University and a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, founded at Morgan State University in 1963Įach of the organizations exists in part to bolster African-American college students while they're on campus, academically and socially.Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, founded at Butler University in 1922.Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, founded at Howard University in 1920.Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, founded at Howard University in 1914.Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, founded at Howard University in 1913.Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, founded at Howard University in 1911.Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, founded at Indiana University in 1911.Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, founded at Howard University in 1908.Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, founded at Cornell University in 1906.
So who are the members of the Divine Nine? "They're working together to basically go into society and to, in some ways, prove that one is a first-class citizen in contrast to what America is saying to the Black community," Ross said. He's also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. "They represent kind of the idea that African Americans who are going to college can also be something larger than themselves." Ross, the author who coined the phrase "the Divine Nine" for one of his books. "African-American fraternities and sororities are just as integral of the Black community as the Black church," said Lawrence C.
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