Volume 77, Number 1, Spring 2013

The idea that Charlotte, North Carolina, could host the 2012 Democratic National Convention may have seemed like an impossible longshot to some, but not to Susan Burgess, a member of the Charlotte City Council. Having just attended the DNC's 2008 convention in Denver, Burgess returned home and began talking up Charlotte as the logical host-city choice - the only choice - to the DNC leadership, the city council and her constituents. Burgess didn't live to see her dream come true (she died of cancer in 2010), but members of Beta Delta Boulé, as well as the prominent political and business leaders in Charlotte, adopted her vision.

• Fred McKinney Included on El Planeta’s Powermeter List El Planeta newspaper, the largest circulating Spanish-language publication in Massachusetts, has released its eighth annual Powermeter list. The Powermeter edition of El Planeta was published on May, 17th, 2013 and includes bilingual words of each of the 100 Powermeter honorees.
  May 30, 2013
• Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation Presents the ‘Rising to the Top’ Scholarship Luncheon Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation (GZBF) announced that they will hold their annual Gamma Zeta Boulé Foundation Scholarship Luncheon, on Sunday, June 2, 2013, at the Pasadena Hilton, 168 S. Los Robles Avenue, in Pasadena, Califormia. Chris Schauble, KTLA 5 Morning News Co-Anchor, will be the host for this celebration.
  May 14, 2013

Our Stand Against Ambiguity and Hypocrisy: From the Declaration of Independence to the Fraternity Itself

"...the High Court of History will...look down upon each of us. I pray that their judgement will be that in Sigma Pi Phi we were effective toward eliminating the racial ambiguity and hypocrisy of the nation..."

At the dawn of the twentieth century black men of distinction had long functioned in various leadership posts, especially in the churches and benevolent association movement. Some, notably Frederick Douglass among them, had even served in high government posts. But by and large they lived lives separate from those of the black masses and the white professionals. In 1904 a small group in Philadelphia set out to create an organization that would provide a vehicle for men of standing and like tastes to come together to know the best of one another.

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