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.

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 everybody gets the chance to help people out,” said Sydney McEntire, a young volunteer […]

by ALLAN APPEL | Jan 15, 2024 2:24 pm More than 200 volunteers from 23 different African-American led fraternities, sororities, and civic and service organizations gathered for a ​“We Are One” day of service in honor of Martin Luther King Day. The event took place Monday morning at the Wexler-Grant Community School on Foote Street in the Dixwell neighborhood. The service consisted […]

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’s colors of pink and green lit up One World Trade Center and the New York City skyline. New York is located in AKA’s […]

A local chapter of a historic Black sorority has teamed up with the city’s public school district to make sure kids who come to class on Saturdays don’t go home hungry. That’s thanks to the Theta Epsilon Omega Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.‘s (AKA) new partnership with the New Haven Public Schools (NHPS). The initiative, […]