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…
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Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc. Fraternal Luncheon – September 30, 2023 Jackson, Ms. OH, WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS —- TO BE HERE IN THE HOUSE WITH MY GOOD ALPHA BROTHERS ONE MORE TIME!!!!!! AND WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT IS FOR…
Racial violence flares Racial violence flares aboard U.S. Navy ships on October 12, 1972. Forty-six sailors are injured in a race riot involving more than 100 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk en route to her station in the…
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Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of the…
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Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops…
How has the history of Detroit’s Black Greek letter organizations — The Divine Nine fraternities and sororities — helped to produce a safe, welcoming community for African Americans in Detroit, one of America’s largest majority-Black cities? In conjunction with acclaimed documentarian…
ROLLING FORK, Miss.— Martha Morris and James Morris did not think it would take five months after a devastating tornado hit Rolling Fork, Miss., on March 24, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deliver their temporary housing unit. But…