BEYOND THIS PLACE: Why Black Fraternities and Sororities Still Matter

Like what you see then please donate and click the link below the other thing we’ve got to stay together we’ve got to stay together as leaders you’ve got to stay together organization we must recognize if we are on the same Road moving toward the same goals and the same city

I have a friend that just has a little when now she’s about a year old and so you want to give her the little red dress so that she knows she’s supposed to be a delta and that’s all in fun because if that child grows up to be a

Aka or is eight or whatever what you wanted to know is that there’s a community that that loves you you you want yourself to know that I have sisters every place I go when I travel and I love it every place I go Delta show it’s wonderful the sisterhood

Is powerful as lily and bimple used to say the sister is strong and I couldn’t be happier my family of course but not just my biological family but my emotional family and and it’s nice to have sisters because everybody my family’s gone we have done a good job

And we continue to because the need is still there the need is still there everybody welcome to post live on mark Lamont Hill I was looking at a study that came up right here on Huffington Post page ranking the top fraternities in America they listed 15 fraternities

Only two black fraternities made the top 15 and I began to wonder has the medium missed the point of what black fraternities and sororities are for or have black fraternities and sororities not let up and met up with their usefulness if the step in installing is

All you see there absolutely Oh get in the way of the message with everything that said there has to be an action that goes along with it so if you’re gonna say the hey were or service organization you have the new service or else if you’re gonna step in

Or call yourself a stem team or a dance team founded during the Jim Crow era of United States history black Greek letter organizations have been associated with some of black culture’s greatest minds people like dr. Martin Luther King jr. Carter G Woodson Dorothy Height George Washington Carver Toni Morrison and many others brought

Out the best in the black arts civil rights and black power movements during the last 20 years questions about the relevancy of black Greek letter organizations have created a dramatic shift and the conversations was surrounded hi I’m jarred Henderson and I’m the creator of beyond this place when I was

12 years old my father took me to downtown st. Louis for my first ever step show at keener Plaza my brother and I had no idea what to expect but once we got there we were instantly hooked beyond this place is a documentary that aims to examine the culture of black

Greek letter organizations while also posing a very complex question what is the role for these organizations in the 21st century with Hollywood and televisions most recent fascination with this culture I couldn’t help but wonder why are so many people telling these stories from the position of peril I mean these organizations have helped

Cultivate some of the greatest minds of our generation central to the success of the beyond this place project is the commitment of financial backers to see this project through all the way to the big screen and we need your help we’ve set a new goal of raising $15,000 that

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