by FeldmanLaurie | Mar 26, 2017 | African American History, People
Democratic Congresswoman Robin Kelly represents Illinois’s 2nd District, which includes Kankakee County and parts of Cook and Will Counties. It includes Chicago’s south suburbs and Southeast Side. Kelly was first elected on April 9, 2013, when the state of Illinois...
by AbeDaudi | Jul 21, 2016 | African American History, People
The 2015 death of twenty-eight-year-old Sandra Bland in a Texas jail cell helped serve as a reminder that Black Lives Matter meant women as well. Sandra Annette Bland, the second-youngest of five daughters, was born on February 7, 1987, in Naperville, Illinois. Raised...
by HardingLakeisha | May 9, 2009 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (SGRho), one of the four college sororities for African American women, was founded by seven public school teachers at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 12, 1922. SGRho is thus the only Greek-letter organization...
by HardingLakeisha | Apr 12, 2009 | African American History, Groups & Organizations
The National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. (NPHC) is the collaborative effort of nine historically African American Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities, also known as the Divine 9. The Council was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 1930,...
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