HBCU sororities, fraternities celebrate Black History Month at Bulls’ game

SECOND TERMS. SCOTT OKAY, THANKS. TONIGHT IT WAS ALL ABOUT HONORING BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT THE UNITED CENTER. THE CELEBRATION HELD BY SOME OF MY SORORITY SISTERS. THEY WERE THERE AS WELL. NATE ROGERS, LIVE NOW FROM THE UNITED CENTER WITH MORE. HI, NATE. I KNOW YOU SAW A LOT F

PINK AND GREEN TONIGHT. THAT’S RIGHT. DON I SAW A LOT OF PINK AND GREEN AND I, AS A PROUD AK MEMBER AS YOU ARE, I DON’T HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE AMAZING ENERGY AND PASSION INSIDE OF THE UNITED CENTER RIGHT NOW. BUT FIRST, I WANT YOU ALL TO TAKE A

LISTEN TO THE HBCU ALUMNI CHOIR AS THEY SANG THE NATIONAL ANTHEM . TONIGHT AND OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE. THEY. AND BEFORE THE CHICAGO BULLS TOOK ON THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS, DIVINE NINE MEMBERS GATHERED INSIDE THE UK’S ATRIUM FOR A PREGAME YARD SHOW. THERE WAS, OF COURSE, STEPPING AND SIGHT TO SEE, WITH HUNDREDS

OF SPECTATORS CHEERING THE GROUPS ON. MEMBERS WERE DECKED IN THEIR FRATERNITY AND SORORITY GARB, REPRESENTING ALL NINE HISTORICALLY BLACK GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATIONS. NOW DIVINE NINE MEMBERS WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THE 1950S AND 1960S. THE GROUPS INITIALLY FORMED AFTER EXPERIENCING RACISM ON THEIR COLLEGE CAMPUSES. TODAY, DIVINE

NINE MEMBERS REMAIN DEVOTED TO COMMUNITY SERVICE SCHOLARSHIPS, EDUCATION, AS WELL AS CIVIL AND SOCIAL ACTION. WE SPOKE TO A COUPLE OF MEMBERS A SHORT WHILE AGO ABOUT TONIGHT’S SIGNIFICANCE . LISTEN IN. AWESOME. IT’S REALLY GREAT FOR US TO GET TOGETHER, CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, CELEBRATE HBCU, CELEBRATE THE DIVINE NINE.

IT’S JUST REALLY GREAT TO SEE SO MANY FACES RIGHT NOW. WE ALL COMING BACK TOGETHER, MAN. IT’S JUST BETTER FOR OUR ROOTS. I DON’T CARE WHAT FRATERNITY SORORITY WE ARE, WE ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS. AND DURING HALFTIME TIME THERE WAS A DIVINE NINE STEP SHOW. CERTAINLY AN

AWESOME SIGHT TO SEE. JUST A LOT OF INCREDIBLE BLACK HISTORY HERE TONIGHT AT THE UNITED CENTER. NOW TALK ABOUT BLACK HISTORY COMING UP LATER IN OUR NEWSCAST, I’M GOING TO INTRODUCE YOU TO ONE CHICAGO LEGEND. SHE SANG GOSPEL MUSIC FOR NEARLY 100 YEARS WITH MANY GOSPEL GREATS. I CAN’T WAIT FOR YOU

TO LISTEN TO HER TUNES AND TO FIND OUT WHY SHE IS SO SPECIAL HERE IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO. AND IT IS THE LATEST HER

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