Sen. Harris’ public acknowledgement of her sorority may offer a history lesson to millions of Americans. “I’m finding a lot of people — particularly white people — are just learning about the Divine Nine,” AKA member Thyrsa M. Gravely said. - NBCBLK
The Divine Nine organizations are used to launching major campaigns, setting financial goals — and meeting them. For instance, under AKA President Glenda Baskin Glover — who is also the president of Tennessee State University — the sorority set a goal of raising $10 million in four years to provide badly needed financial support for HBCUs.
Gayle Danley, an artist and poet in Bethesda, Maryland, was one of the 38 women on the AKA initiation line with Harris at Howard University. The sorors will “rally around Kamala much like we did when on line,” said Lorri L. Saddler Rice, associate vice president and dean of undergraduate admission at Clark Atlanta University. “Whatever challenge was put before us as initiates we worked together to accomplish the task. We’re leveraging the same gifts we had in 1986 to support her.”
Announcing the bill, Harris said in statement, “Black women develop uterine fibroids earlier, have larger and a greater number of fibroids and are three times more likely than white women to be hospitalized” for them.
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