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 ...
Deborah Dyett Desir, MD, Joins ACR Executive Committee as Secretary
Early in her career, Deborah Dyett Desir, MD, assistant professor of clinical medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn., planned to go into infectious disease. With the support of a dedicated mentor, she shifted her sights to rh ...
Legendary New Haven educator celebrated with drive
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — The Elm City community celebrated a legendary New Haven educator Sunday. Jeffie Frazier is a Louisiana native who came to New Haven and taught in the Elm City’s public schools starting in 1966. She eventually became p ...
Students at New Haven school visit teachers, receive supplies to help with remote learning
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH)– After weeks of remote learning, students at one New Haven school got to see their teachers in person Friday morning. They got some other nice surprises, too. Thanksgiving is not until next week, but there was a lot to be ...
World Refugee Day
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter supports the integration of refugees in the Greater New Haven area. One of the goals of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® is to support refugees of color in the Un ...