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The Rainbow Black Greeks: Part II
The Rainbow Black Greeks: Part II Being a lesbian in a sorority sometimes means having to make decisions heterosexual members don’t have to worry about. The freedom of being out has to be balanced with the realties of how people both in and outside of the sorority view them. “I remember prior to coming out,…
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The Rainbow Black Greeks
Lawrence Ross is the author of the Los Angeles Times best-seller The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities. His newest book, Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America’s Campuses, is a blunt and frank look at the historical and contemporary issue of campus racism on predominantly white college…
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That's My Jam: The #8 Hip Hop Videos With Black Greeks
I’ll just get this out of the way. I love Sade. So I was going to find a way to put Sade in this list no matter what. She could have simply mentioned the word “Black” and “Greek” in a song randomly, then moved her feet in a way that I could have rationalized as…
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That's My Jam: The #7 Hip Hop Videos With Black Greeks
By God, you’ve done the dance a billion times on campus, at house parties, church socials, and at wedding receptions. And I’ll bet Uncle Pookey, the one with the sleepy eye and the itchy hand, broke out doing it at the last funeral you attended. It’s the Cupid Shuffle by Cupid, the everybody let’s do…
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That’s My Jam! The #6 Hip Hop Video With Black Greeks
Kanye West and Black Greeks. I don’t know what it is, but over the years there’s been a weird fascination among Black Greeks about Kanye West and making him a fantasy member of one fraternity or another. I never understood it, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received some random email, usually…
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That's My Jam! The #9 Hip Hop Video With Black Greeks
#9: Montell Jordan: This Is How We Do It (Spring Remix) You know how a song transcends your age group when your momma and dem start singing it, and your preacher crafts a Sunday sermon based on the hook? That was Montell Jordan’s 1995 classic, This Is How We Do It. Although this is more…
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That's My Jam: Top Ten Hip-Hop Videos With Black Greeks!
Don’t front, you know you get hyped when you see it. A popular hip-hop artist has a new video and BAM, there it is! Your frat or sorority members are all over the video, stepping, chilling, sporting para and generally representing the org in front of millions. Or he or she is the artist on…
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The Z in Kazakhstan stands for Zeta
I’ve met Black Greeks pretty much everywhere I’ve traveled. Whether they were chilling in Toronto, living on an ashram in Accra, Ghana, or serving beer in a London pub, I’m never surprised. But Black Greeks in Kazakhstan? What the…? Meet Erica McMahon, Syracuse grad and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority soror, who ditched her lucrative career…
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Going to Nationals…What's It All About?
All I remember about my summer job in ’88 was that my frat brother and I were working in 110-degree heat, and that was in the shade. My job was to use a heavy jackhammer to break up about one hundred yards of thick concrete, all reinforced with steel rebar, which made it feel like…
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A New Guide for the Other Woman
Let’s say you’re a single woman at Club HollerAtMe and you meet Mr. Married Guy. The more you talk, the more you find out that he’s everything you ever wanted. And soon, the wedding ring on his finger is just another piece of jewelry to you. Eventually, things turn into thangs, and suddenly you find…
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