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The effort would allow millions of immigrants here to start on a path to citizenship and expand refugee admissions as well as deploy technology to guard the border.
From Howard to VP: Kamala Harris Alpha Kappa Alpha Sisters Keep Her Centered She was a Howard University senior working toward a career in public service, mature thanks to her four years on campus and committed to strengthening the bond with her line sisters By Shawn Yancy and Briana Trujillo •
Published January 18, 2021 •
Updated on January 19, 2021 at 9:12 pm
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The year was 1986. Howard University was bursting with the voracious energy of student minds protesting apartheid in South Africa, rallying for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, and launching themselves into service projects and campus life.
Not least among them were the sisters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. Their chapter that year would boast 38 Black young women, eager to form a sisterhood since the chapter had not had a line or new membership intake the year prior. They were the 38 Jewels of Iridescent Splendor. Thirty-eight line sisters.
The United States surpassed another somber milestone on Tuesday a total of more than 400,000 COVID-19 deaths over the past year since the start of the pandemic.
Here is how you can safely participate in the inauguration
On a typical Inauguration Day, hundreds of thousands of Americans flock to Washington, DC, to catch a glimpse of the new President being sworn in.
Not this year.
Government leaders and health officials are telling people to stay away. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser urged people to not travel to the United States capital for the inauguration in a news conference early last week.
“Our goals right now are to encourage Americans to participate virtually and to protect the District of Columbia from a repeat of the violent insurrection experienced at the Capitol and its grounds on January 6,” Bowser said.