Is Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority requiring credit checks to perspective members because of the actions of Barbara Mckenzie?
Michelle Obama has accepted an honorary membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest African-American sorority in the country, the group’s president, Barbara A. McKinzie, has announced. The sorority is celebrating its centennial with a week of celebrations in the District. It was founded at Howard University in 1908, and counts Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, and former Washington mayor Sharon Pratt among its members. Eleanor Roosevelt was also an honorary member of the organization, whose membership now stands at more than 200,000. Obama, with her work as an attorney, healthcare executive, and activist, fits right into the professional network of the sorority. The induction of the wife of Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee, will not take place during this week’s convention, McKinzie said. Details have not yet been set. Among those being inducted tomorrow are Rutgers University basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer and Wangari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan envi
There are moments when one feels good because a person, guided by a sense of integrity, stepped forward and did the right thing. Barbara A. McKinzie, the international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest black women’s sorority in the world spoke out today to the thousands of AKA members across the world, and to the public at large. She let Geraldine Ferraro have it for dismissing Senator Barack Obama’s popularity as due to his being lucky for being black; rather than because of his experience and message of hope that is resonating with the country. She called Ferraro’s ridiculous comments “outrageous” and she said they were race-based and inflammatory. She said the Sorority “denounces and rejects” her words and the spirit behind them. (Payback is rough!) She said “What is particularly offensive is how Ferraro condescendingly dismisses Senator Obama’s candidacy as a ‘concept’ that the country is caught up in. In trivializing his candidacy as luck-based and race-based, she fails t
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority “Denounces and Rejects” Geraldine Ferraro Statement There are moments when one feels good because a person, guided by a sense of integrity, stepped forward and did the right thing. Barbara A. McKinzie, the international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest black women’s sorority in the world spoke out today to the thousands of AKA members across the world, and to the public at large. She let Geraldine Ferraro have it for dismissing Senator Barack Obama’s popularity as due to his being lucky for being black; rather than because of his experience and message of hope that is resonating with the country. She called Ferraro’s ridiculous comments “outrageous” and she said they were race-based and inflammatory. She said the Sorority “denounces and rejects” her words and the spirit behind them. (Payback is rough!) She said “What is particularly offensive is how Ferraro condescendingly dismisses Senator Obama’s candidacy as a ‘concept’ that the country is caught
