This article is a part of Blavity U Spirit Week 2023.
The letters and symbols of Black sororities and fraternities have recently been the focus of several headlines.
As Blavity reported, in September, a white substitute teacher went viral for wearing a jacket embroidered with the sorority letters of the teacher she was covering for. A few weeks later, a Nashville teacher made headlines for confiscating a shirt that a second grader was wearing, bearing the letters of the same sorority of which she was a member.