TTown County Chapter of the NPHC, Hosts Virtual Candidates Forum
The Tuscaloosa County Chapter of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) is hosting a meet the NPHC candidates forum. In the world of the COVID-19 pandemic, this will take place in the virtual space. The live Facebook event will be on Thursday, February 4, 2021, at 7:30 pm.
The National Pan-Hellenic Council “promotes the well-being of its affiliate fraternities and sororities, facilitates the establishment and development of local councils of the NPHC, and provides leadership training for its constituents.”
The sororities and fraternities it represents are also known as the Divine 9 or D9. They include the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.
Dr. Monte Linebarger Honored as Black History Maker of Alabama
92.9 WTUG, Praise 93.3, and 105.1 The Block in partnership with the Delta Phi Lambda chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the Eta Xi Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., along with Robinson Automotive, and Dixie Motors in Northport, we are proud to salute Dr. Monte Linebarger as a Black History Maker of Alabama.
Dr. Monte Linebarger is more commonly known as the “The Champion Principal”. He has 20 years of educational experience. Monte has served as a teacher and coach on the middle school and high school levels. His educational experience includes Teacher, Assistant Principal, Elementary Principal, and the Elementary Director of Instruction.
Missouri’s 2021 legislative session will be barrier breaking.
The number of women serving is at an all-time high with 52 female lawmakers. It will have the most ever Black lawmakers serving with 25. There will be five openly LGBTQ lawmakers which is believed to be another record.
And the first Asian American woman was elected to the Legislature.
It’s a long way from the historic firsts achieved roughly a century ago, when Walthall Moore, a Republican from St. Louis, became Missouri’s first Black state lawmaker in 1920 and two years later in 1922, when Sarah Lucille Turner and Mellcene Smith became the first women elected to the Legislature.
Former GOP leader: ‘The legislature having people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders all those things make for healthy debate’
Billy Joe ‘B.J.’ Roberts
HAMPTON Sheriff Billy Joe “B.J.” Roberts, 70, peacefully departed this life Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. He was preceded in death by his parents, Earnest and Viola Roberts; and sister, Nora Barnwell.
A native of South Carolina, Sheriff Roberts was educated in Hampton and earned his high school diploma from Phenix High School. During his high school years, he played football and basketball, and later earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management from Hampton University. He completed the Northwestern University Public Safety Management School in Illinois, the National Sheriffs’ Institute (NSI) program in Colorado, the Virginia Sheriffs’ Institute Chief Executive Training Program and Civic Leadership Institute.