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Bartle Hall Sky Stations I grew up 85 miles northeast of Kansas City, Mo. in a small farming town. On the special occasion that we would get to go to Kansas City (the city) it was a very exciting thing for me. I’ll never forget the first time I got to drive by downtown Kansas City. Traveling south along I-29/I-35 and all of the sudden I looked up and saw these huge concrete pylons protruding through the skyline. These pylons were incredible to me but what really drew my interest was what was sitting

What S.M.I. Means to Me? What does S.M.I. mean to me? S.M.I. is my second home because it’s where I can be myself. I’ve been a student here since kindergarten and I am now in 8th grade. I made new friends here at S.M.I. I like to play basketball and soccer here. I sometimes stay for the girl’s basketball game and support them. I like soccer the best because in my opinion, I’m the best at that sport. I play with my friends at games and practices. I also hang out with my friends at basketball. I’m

Have you ever heard of the speech “I Have a Dream” from the late Martin Luther King Jr.? You’d be pretty sure many people have heard of it, but has anyone ever really read it and thought about it? This could be like “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery,” a piece of work produced by Frederick Douglass. “They both argued that African-Americans have a natural right to equality” (Renfro 1). Douglass once said, “The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.” Here is just another

Trailblazers for Black Greek Organizations in Higher Education: The Journey of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., African American education systems and colleges faced many issues systematically and socially. The process of integrating colleges was a process faced with opposition because the idea that higher education was made for strictly for white upper-class men was still the underlying ideal. While equal opportunity was promoted in the light, behind the scenes

Blackwell was also a pioneer in textbook writing and game theory. Blackwell wrote one of the first Bayesian (relating to or denoting statistical methods based on Bayes' theorem) textbooks, his 1969 Basic Statistics. Blackwell was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity (Tau chapter – University of Illinois at

Born in South Carolina in 1863, Dr. Kelly Miller was a leading African-American intellectual for more than half a century, and the first African-American to attend the Johns Hopkins University. After graduating from Howard University, Dr. Miller was admitted to the graduate program in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Mathematics in 1887. After two years, however, he withdrew from the university without a degree. Unfortunately, Miller was not able to keep attending Johns

would focus on interaction, encouragement, and ethical growth between the members, and that is exactly what Alpha Kappa Alpha has done ever since she created it. In 1908, AKA also known as the sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first African American sorority was created. Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha communicate and express their common ideas and goals in their own unique ways. Alpha Kappa Alphas represent service and culture more than anything. Ever since AKA was founded in 1908, their motto has been

Jesse joined Alpha Phi Alpha in order to bond with like-minded individuals. Alpha Phi Alpha was the first Black Greek-letter intercollegiate fraternity in the United States founded on Cornell 's campus in 1906 initially created as a Black men 's literary and support group. The purpose of the organization is to foster strong bonds between men of African descent who faced racial prejudice. The organization combines social purpose with social action. Jesse wanted to be part of the brotherhood:

A Sisterhood called to Serve Everyone knows about the stroll offs, roll calls, and step shows when an African American Greek sorority or fraternity is the topic. But is that all African American Greeks do is step and stroll? Believe it or not the image of African American Greeks has been tainted and miscued by their entertaining performances. Better known as the Divine Nine, the African American Greeks their hand signs and colors. The Divine Nine is a brotherhood and sisterhood organizations that

returned full force becoming a brother of the Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated where he obtained the seeds that would soon create MCI. Smith said “[Alpha] actively showed me what it meant to be successful in college” as it develops leaders and helped him find his own identity as a college student. Smith’s fraternity experience influenced Yousif as he says it “sparked my interest in wanting to become a brother of Alpha and since then I’ve grown really close with