SOMETHING YOU JOIN IN COLLEGE… BUT INSTEAD– A LIFETIME COMITTMENT TO SERVICE… SCHOLARSHIP… AND UPLIFTING MANKIND… TERRI KLBK’S BRENSHAVIA JORDAN IS HERE TO EXPLAIN THE SIGNIFFICANE OF THE NINE HISTORICALLY BLACK FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES… ONE OF WHICH SHE HAPPENS TO BEBE A PART OF…. “THESE NINE ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A VERY LONG
TIME..FOR EXAMPLE ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED WHICH I AM A PROUD MEMBER. WE WERE THE FIRST BLACK SORORITY FOUNDED IN NINETEEN O EIGHT AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY…..WHI LE WE ALL HAVE DIFFERENT COLORS AND GREEK LETTERS OUR MISSION IS THE SAME…. TO CARRY THE TORCHES OUR FOUNDERS PASSED TO US MAKING THE COMMUNITIES
AROUND US BETTER.” THE NATIONAL PAN- HELLENIC COUNCIL WAS FORMED MAY TENTH NINETEEN THIRTY AT HOWARD UNIVERISTY AND CONSIST OF FOUR BLACK SORORITIES AND FIVE FRATERNITIES…BE TTER KNOWN AS THE DIVINE NINE THESE ORGANIZATIONS WHERE CREATED AT A TIME RACIAL SEGREGATION WAS PROMINENT, AND BLACKS WHERE EXCLUDED FROM BEING APART OF WHITE ORGANIZATIONS ON COLLEGE
CAMPUSES SINCE THEY WERE NOT AFFORDED THE SAME RIGH AND PRIVILIEGES THE FOUNDERS OF EACH ORGANIZATION CREATED THEIR OWN AVENUE. TODAY THERE ARE CLOSE TO TWO MILLION MEMBERS IN THE DIVINE NINE TEXAS TECH IS ONE OF THE MANY COLLEGES ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHERE THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE CHARTERED “WHEN I DID BECOME A
MEMBER OF THE D9, AND SPECIFICALLY MY ORGANIZATION I FOUND LIKE MINDED PEOPLE WHO LOOKED LIKE ME. SO I THINK IT GIVES ME THE ENCOURAGEMENT TO KEEP GOING AND KNOW THAT I AM NOT ALONE. WE SHARE LIKE EXPERIENCES AND THEY WANT TO DO THE THINGS THAT I WANT TO DO IN THE COMMUNITY.”
EDUCATION, COMMUNITY SERVICE, AND UNITY ARE JUST A FEW OF THE COMMON BONDS THESE ORGANIZATIONS SHARE BUT THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT PRINCIPALS AND MOTTOS “OUR PRINCIPLES ARE SCHOLARSHIP, SERVICE, SISTERHOOD AND FINER WOMANHOOD AND OUR MOTTO IS A COMMUNITY CONCIOUS ACTION ORIENTED ORGANIZATION. AND THROUGHOUT ZETAS HISTORY, LIKE WE HAVE BEEN IN THE COMMUNITY GETTING
ON THE GROUND AND GETTING OUR FEET DIRTY, GETTING OUR HANDS DUSTY THAT’S JUST WHO ZETA IS.” AND IT EXPANDS BEYOND COLLEGE..SOME OF THE WORLDS GREATEST LEADERS COME FROM THESE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR….VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS ANDD MICAHEL JORDAN JUST TO NAME A FEW… “IT’S MORE THAN WHAT
MEETS THE EYE. IT GOES INTO A LOT OF HISTORY IT GOES INTO A LOT OF PRINCIPLES ALOT OF MORALS AND CHARACTER. IT’S DEFINETLY A SELF BUILDING AND ALSO A COMMUNITY BUILDING TYPE OF THING. AND AT THE END OF THE DAY ITS’ A LIFE LONG BROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD.” “I FEEL LIKE THE MEDIA HAS
REALLY MISCONSTRUED WHAT AND WHO WE ARE AS A MOVEMENT. MAKING SURE THAT YOU KNOW WHAT U ARE GETTING INTO, AGAIN DOING YOUR RESEARCH AND WHO WOULD YOU BE BEFORE AND AFTER YOU JOIN TEH D9. I THINK THOSE ARE SOME IMPORTANT FACTORS THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION BECAUSE E THIS IS
A LIFETIME COMMITTMENT.” “A COMMITMENT THAT ALL OF US IN THE DIVINE NINE ARE PROUD TO DO…AND I WANT TO GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUTOUT TO MY SORORITY SISTERS WHO CONTINUE THE LEGACY OF OUR FOUNDER MATT GREAT STUFF BRENSHAVIA… BRENSHAVIA… AND ALSO SHOUTOUT TO MY PARENTS WHO ARE ALSO D-9 MEMBERS… STILL TO
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