A little good news about my shero, Michelle Obama, to break up all these New Yorker blogs.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University on January 15, 1908 by nine distingusihed students.
Via wiki
Since being founded over a century ago, Alpha Kappa Alpha has helped to improve social and economic conditions through community service programs. Members have improved education through independent initiatives, contributed to community-building by creating programs and associations – such as the Mississippi Health Clinic – and influenced federal legislation by Congressional lobbying through the National Non-Partisan Lobby on Civil and Democratic Rights. The sorority works with communities through service initiatives and progressive programs relating to education, family, health, and business.
AKA boasts 200,000 active members world wide. Among its memebership are such distinguished sorors as: Rosa Parks, Maya Angelou, Ella Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Corretta Scott King.
Michelle Obama will be inducted as an honorary member in a ceremony later this week, during AKA's cenntenial celebration.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/...
Michelle Obama has accepted an honorary membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest African-American sorority in the country, the group's president, Barbara A. McKinzie, has announced.
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Obama, with her work as an attorney, healthcare executive, and activist, fits right into the professional network of the sorority.
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Among those being inducted tomorrow are Rutgers University basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer and Wangari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan environmental and political activist who is the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
This will do nothing to fight back the elitist smears, but the networking and organizational possibilty of not only being an AKA, but adopted by the Divine Nine will be a net gain.