2024 Scholarship Application
The New Haven Pearls of Excellence Foundation and the Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter scholarship application is now available. The deadline to apply is March 28, 2024. Click here to read eligibility requirements and to download the application.
“We Are One” Community Day of Giving Food Drive
Monday, Jan. 15 at 10 a.m. | Wexler Grant Community School, 55 Foote St., New Haven The food drive was held to benefit the Women of the Village Food Pantry and was a collaboration of 21 organizations designed to feed 300 families. “Not everybo
Black Fraternities, Sororities Give Back for MLK Day
by ALLAN APPEL | Jan 15, 2024 2:24 pm ALLAN APPEL PHOTOMyles Mabry of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity at Monday's MLK community service event. More than 200 volunteers from 23 different African-American led fraternities, sororities, and civic a
New York Skyline Shines with ΑΚΑ Pink & Green on Sorority’s Founders’ Day
New York, NY—North Atlantic Regional Director Elicia Pegues Spearman, Esq. shared with Black Westchester, that in celebration of the 116th Founders’ Day of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® (AKA), on January 15, 2024, the sorority’
Sorority Steps Up With Saturday School Meals
MAYA MCFADDEN PHOTOS - The "ladies in pink and green" kick off Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Pack. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter at Saturday's kick off. A local chapter of a historic Black sorority has
2022 Scholarship Application Available
Attention Graduating Class of 2022! The New Haven Pearls of Excellence Foundation, Inc. with Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter is offering a four-year scholarship, up to $6,000.00, to a graduating senior in the top third of their class. All ap
Executive celebrated for nurturing next generation of leaders
Elicia Pegues Spearman has always been up for a challenge — and compelled to help the next person. Since she was a little girl growing up in Hamden, less than a mile from Quinnipiac’s Mount Carmel Campus, she never settled for the status qu
Biden nominates associate state Attorney General Vanessa Avery as Connecticut’s first Black female U.S. attorney
President Joe Biden has nominated Vanessa Avery of the state attorney general's office to be the next U.S. Attorney for the state of Connecticut. (Mark Mirko/The Hartford Courant) President Joe Biden has nominated associate state Attorney Ge
Moy Ogilvie Selected as one of Hartford Business Journal’s Power 50 Class of 2021
Moy Ogilvie is managing partner in the Hartford office of national law firm McCarter & English. She represents one of the few Black women managing partners in Connecticut and the country and is a leader inside and outside her firm. Ogilvie