Vision. Unity. Stewardship. Yesterday, we honored the life of Ethel Hedgeman Lyle, the visionary who, in 1908, helped establish Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® at Howard University. She imagined something bold and beautiful, a sisterhood rooted in scholarship, culture, and service. And then she stayed to nurture it. From breaking barriers in education to serving her community and guiding Alpha Kappa Alpha’s finances for more than two decades, her leadership was steady, principled, and

On Wednesday, January 15, 1908, our beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C. Today, we celebrate 117 years of sisterhood, scholarship, and service to all mankind. We honor our nine pearls who dared to dream, led by our visionary Guiding Light Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, we speak their names: Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Elizabeth Burke, Lillie E. Burke, Marjorie Hill, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe, and Marie Woolfolk T