Zeta Phi Beta member Ann Moore searches through several pairs of children's shoes Saturday at Sears Department Store in Central Mall. The sorority partnered with Sears to give 60 pairs of shoes to 38 families with school-age children that needed shoes.

The event was the sorority's third annual shoe giveaway. Last year the sorority gave 53 pairs of shoes, said Barbara Larry, chairwoman of the Zeta Phi Beta project.  more >>

An ISU fraternity is kicking-off the school year by hosting a rare event in which one ISU student will perform by opening for two well-known rappers.

Lil' T, ISU junior and sports medicine major, T. Lloyd, will be opening for rappers Polk, 8 Ball and MJG tonight.

"This is a new beginning. The launching," Lloyd said. "I'm ready. It's going to be a good show."

Lloyd has been rapping since he was in first grade. He said he is ready to be a crowd mover at tonight's show. Lloyd described his rapping genre as "conscious music."  

The men of Phi Beta Sigma anticipate nearly 1,000 people to attend the show. The show is "going to be fun and full of energy," said Phi Beta Sigma member, Hamid Saahir, who is an ISU senior, graphic design major.   more >>

ToiLoria E. Young-Moss, a native of Bogalusa, received a Master of Arts Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Southern University in Baton Rouge on July 29.

A member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church, she is also a member of the American Counseling Association, Tau Iota Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and the Behavioral Studies Graduate Council. She is currently employed at S&M Outreach Inc, a social service agency in Baton Rouge.  more >>

Those attending the 29th gathering of the “Lunch Bunch" at the Reston home of Thelma and Roosevelt "Cal" Calbert were surprised, Aug. 9, to find themselves the guests at a wedding.

For the past 11 years, Thelma lobbied for various issues on Capitol Hill; been the chairman of the schooling counsel for Delta Kappa Gama, an honor society for female educators; started a weekly bridge club; worked actively in her church, Washington Plaza Baptist Church in Reston; remained active in her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha; and worked with a retired educators' group.   more >>

The Edwardsville Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Upsilon Phi Omega, concluded its three-part summer mentoring program Saturday. The program, Tomorrow's Pearl, was conducted as part of the sorority's Black Family Programming Initiative.

Participants of the program included 11 girls ages 13 to 16. The program featured one workshop each month starting in June.

Saturday's workshop was entitled "Increasing Your Cash Flow While Setting Your Goals."  more >>

Mass Transit: The Movement of People Thru Sound - Hip-Hop for Sudanese Relief, will include performances by hip-hop and rap greats dead prez, Immortal Technique, Goapele and others. They will perform at the Sudan Genocide benefit concert in Las Vegas August 29th.

The National Hip-Hop Political Convention is planning a benefit concert to address the genocide occurring in Sudan. The concert... more >>

A former St. Louis University student has sued one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious African-American sororities, claiming a hazing ritual prompted a car accident that resulted in permanent injuries to her.

The woman, Courtney Easter, filed the suit Wednesday in St. Louis Circuit Court. Easter is claiming that the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, its top officers and several of its members had roles in a car accident on Oct. 31, 2003, in which she was severely injured.   more >>

Thousands of people lined Michigan Avenue Sunday afternoon to offer condolences and pay their respects to John H. Johnson, a giant in the media industry and an icon in the African American community.

Johnson, the founder of a business empire that included Ebony and Jet magazines, the Ebony Fashion Fair and Fashion Fair cosmetics, died of heart failure in Chicago on Aug. 8. He was 87.

Johnson was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, and nearly 100 of his brothers paid tribute to him during a ceremony reserved for deceased members.

They sang and issued a proclamation in his name as he moved into the Omega chapter, the final resting place for the organization's members.   more >>

 In a few days, parents throughout the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region will get a shopping list from their children's schools.

For some families, that list is an unwelcome burden on their already strapped finances.

But there's help.

Hundreds of needy students in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky will receive free backpacks, notebooks, pencils and other school supplies from charitable groups over the next few weeks.  more >>

Mrs. Rose Shockley Wiseman, class of 1937 graduate, recently began a $30,000 endowment fund to support scholarships for elementary and secondary education majors.

The J. Alexander & Rose Shockley Wiseman Scholarship Fund is named for Mrs. Wiseman and her husband, the late Dr. Joseph Alexander Wiseman, who was the first director and founder of the Bowie State University Graduate School.

The newly established fund will strengthen the university's endowment and ensure long-term stability for scholarships in the teaching profession. The Private Donation Incentive Program of the State of Maryland will match the funds placed into the scholarship at a rate of 2:1, which will accelerate the fund's value to $90,000.   more >>