(blackcollegewire.org) Alpha Phi Alpha, Inc., the nation’s largest black fraternity, is developing a national strategic plan aimed at addressing such problems as the low numbers of black males majoring in education and black men’s disproportionate health issues.
“We want to make discussions on healthcare as common as dapping someone up,” said Mitchelle Artis, alumnus of the Alpha Phi Alpha chapter at Hampton University, speaking of the fraternity handshake.
More than 10,000 Alphas met in Washington this summer for a symposium and “town meeting” on the state of African American men, part of a five-day centennial convention.
The symposium was designed to define goals for black male advancement in health, wealth and innovation, and to develop black men personally, emotionally and spiritually. Plans developed from the discussion were to help create the “African-American jubilee century.” (more…)
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