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Black sororities have stood at the forefront of Black achievement for more than a century

  • Written by Tamara L. Brown, Executive Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of North Texas
imageAlpha Kappa Alpha sorority members at a get-out-the-vote event in 2020Octavio Jones/Getty Images

In her speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention Kamala Harris saluted seven women who “inspired us to pick up the torch and fight on.”

All but two of them, one of whom was her mother, belonged to Black sororities. Harris also...

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