3 FIRST DAY OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH. ALL MONTH LONG HERE ON LIVING LOCAL WE CELEBRATE THE IMPORTANCE OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY WITH UNIQUE WEEKLY THEMES. THIS WEEK WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT HISTORICAL BLACK ON LIVING LOCAL WE CELEBRATE AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND THIS WEEK WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT
HISTORIC BLACK ORGANIZATIONS THAT MAKE UP THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND COLLECTIVELY THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE REFERRED TO AS THE DIVINE 9 AND ARE SOME OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS IN THE COUNTRY. EACH YEAR THEY OFFER COUNTLESS SCHOLARSHIPS AND PROVIDE MANY SERVICES AND WE BEGIN WITH OUR FIRST GROUP WHO ARE HERE TO
SHARE WITH US MORE ABOUT THEIR BROTHERHOOD. GOOD MORNING, GUYS! GOOD MORNING. AND THIS IS A LOT TO GET TO AND I KIND OF FEEL BAD BECAUSE I’LL IS ASK YOU IN LIKE 5 MINUTES TO GIVE US ALL THE HISTORY OF YOUR ORGANIZATION. BUT HOW DID THE ALPHAS FIRST BEGIN AND WHEN?
IT FIRST GEGAN AT THE UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK ON AN ICE COLD TUESDAY AND 7 GREAT MEN CAME TOGETHER AND ESTABLISHED OUR GREAT FRATERNITY BASED ON PRINCIPLES LIKE BROTHERHOOD AND SERVICE AND IT WAS DEFINITELY NEED FOR THAT TIME. AND YOU RECENTLY JUST JOINED THIS AMAZING BROTHERHOOD AND WHAT MADE YOU JOIN THE FRATERNITY?
GROWING UP I DIDN’T HAVE BLOOD BROTHERS BUT ONCE I GOT TO SCHOOL TO SEE THAT INFLUENCE AND I WAS LIKE I HAVE TO DO THIS! AND I THINK THAT IS VERY UNIQUE WITH SORORITIES AND FRATERNITIES AND YOU JOINED AS AN UNDERGRAD AND WAS THE CASE FOR ME AND SOME CHOOSE TO JOIN
LATER IN LIFE AND YOU CONTINUE TO DO THAT SERVICE IN THE COMMUNITY AND TELL US ABOUT WHAT YOU DO HERE LOCALLY. WE HAVE PROGRAMS LIKE GO TO SCHOOL AND GO TO COLLEGE AND ARE DOING THAT AT LYNCHBURG HIGH SCHOOL AND WE’RE EDUCATING VOTERS AND REGISTERING VOTERS
AND THEN IT IS TO THAT IN THE MARCH OF DIMES WITH THAT ANNUAL PART TO RAISE. ANCHOR: AND PRETTY MUCH ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS DO THIS AND BUT HAVE THEIR OWN INTEREST. YOU REPRESENT OUR AREA AND OTHERS ARE IN LYNCHBURG AND OTHER AREAS. THERE ARE LOCAL CHAPTERS IN DANVILLE AND LYNCHBURG.
SO LOCAL CHAPTERS THERE. THERE ARE SOME PRETTY WELL KNOWN ALPHAMEN OUT THERE. EDUCATE US. MOST PERSONALITY IS THE REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., RIGHT? AND THEN OTHERS LIKE ANDREW YOUNG AND ONE IS ACTRESS AND COMEDIAN AND THEN THE MOST FAMOUS IS REVEREND BILL LEE WHO USED TO BE A PAST AT THE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND EDWARD DUDLY AND IN ROANOKE WAS THE FIRST AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED STATES. I GOT TO ASK DEVANTE. WHAT CAUSED YOU TO BECOME AN ALPHAMAN? A LOT OF MY GOOD FRIENDS THAT DISPLAYED CHARACTERIST IQUIQUES I WANT WANTED TO MATURE TO AND THEN REVEREND LEE AS WELL MODELED TO ME THAT
SERVICE TO COME BY. AND MARLIN, THERE ARE 9 SORORITIES IN THE XWIEN9. WHAT SELTZ ALPHAS APART? I THINK NUMBER ONE WE WERE FIRST TO DO IT AND I THINK WE’RE PRIDEFUL FROM THAT AND WITH THAT SERVICE STANDPOINT AND MANY ARE DOING A REAL GOOD JOB WITH SERVICE BUT ARE A
LEADER AMONG THAT AND TO MAKE SURE WE LEAVE THE WORLD AS A GREATER PLACE. WE ARE SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE AND IF YOU HAVE THIS HEART FOR SERVICE AND WONDERFUL TO LOOK UP TO! THANKS FOR SHARING AND EDUCATING US THIS MORNING. THANK YOU.
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