Joyful Founders’ Day!
It’s a phenomenal day to salute the dynamic ladies of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. celebrating 113 years of sisterhood, scholarship, and repair as thee Devastating Divas of the Divine 9.
Based by 22 ladies at Howard College in 1913, the storied group blossomed from a collective need to advertise educational excellence whereas offering help to these in want.
In March of 1913, the Founders carried out their first public act by taking part within the Girls’s Suffrage March in Washington, D.C.
For over a century, they’ve offered assist with key packages underneath the sorority’s 5-Level Programmatic Thrust: Financial Growth, Academic Growth, Worldwide Consciousness, Bodily/Psychological Well being, and Political Consciousness.
Since its founding, greater than 300,000 ladies have joined the sisterhood of predominantly Black, school educated ladies.
As we speak, the globally revered sorority has 1,000 collegiate and alumnae chapters positioned in the US, Canada, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and the Republic of Korea.
Notable members of the group embrace Ledisi, Cicely Tyson, Shirley Chisholm, Aretha Franklin, Angela Bassett, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Mara Brock Akil, Andra Day, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Brandee Evans, Okay. Michelle, and plenty of extra devoted to supply help and assist in native communities all through the world.
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