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Alpha Phi Alpha 118th Founders’ Day

Yesterday, members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity, celebrated their Founders’ Day yesterday. The stories fraternity was established on Dec. 4, 1906.

Above: Members of Alpha Phi Alpha gather for a photo on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 4, 2024.

Members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity include Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Duke Ellington, Thurgood Marshall and Maynard Jackson. Alphas from Virginia include Congressman Bobby Scott, Speaker Don Scott, fmr. Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Del. Michael Feggans.

New Commission Looks at How Virginia Colleges Impacted Black Communities

🚩 Under just one federal program between 1959 and 1966, roughly 8,000 families of color across the country were removed from their homes for college and university expansions.

THE VIRGINIA CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM AT WHRO: For decades, Virginia’s public colleges and universities expanded campuses to accommodate growing student populations – often at the expense of Black communities.

State and local elected leaders are just now probing what price these communities paid. That cost is hard to determine, officials said Monday at
a state hearing, and community members are impatient for a reckoning.

“Often, the anger has gone on from generation to generation because of the injustices that have occurred,” said Del. Delores McQuinn, chair of the