SUSSEX COUNTY – January has been quite monumental for members of the Sussex County Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.
The celebration began Jan. 12 as the Sussex Chapter — officially the Alpha Alpha Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. — marked its one-year founding anniversary.
Several days later, Jan. 15 marked the 113th anniversary of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.’s founding, in 1908 at Howard University, a private, federally chartered historically Black university in Washington.
And, of course, on Jan. 20, Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority sister, Kamala Harris took the oath as vice president; the first woman, first Black person and first Asian-American to hold the second-highest elected position in America.
“We just celebrated our one-year anniversary. The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Founders Day was the 15th of January. And now we have our sister, Vice President Kamala Harris, inaugurated,” said AKA Sussex Chapter member [D]ara Savage Laws. “January has been — Wooo-Whooo!”
Kamala Harris joined AKA as a law student at Howard University.
“So, Kamala joined the organization at its birthplace,” said Ms. Laws Savage.
“The fact that she (Harris) is one of our sisters, that fact that she is a woman of color, that she is female – the list goes on and on,” said AKA Sussex Chapter member Toni Barrett, the chapter’s public relations chairwoman.
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