UWF Zetas: Nu Eta Chapter

The Founders’ Day celebrating continues for the ladies of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated!

Tune in to American Experience | PBS presents “Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space,” a new in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century. She would become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas.

“Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space,” premieres on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE tonight, Tuesday, January 17th at 9:00pm EST (check your local listings) on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS Video app.

Hurston, who attended Howard University between 1919 – 1924, became one of the first initiates of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated.

📸 Courtesy of the Zora Neale Hurston Museum of Fine Arts in Eatonville, Florida.

Serving our Community for 103 Years💙🕊

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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated was founded on January 16, 1920, at Howard University, Washington, D.C. An ugly history perpetrated against Black communities enveloped America during this period, and the Harlem Renaissance was acknowledged as the first important movement of Black artists and writers in the U.S. This same year the Volstead Act became effective, heralding the start of Prohibition and Tennessee delivered the crucial 36th ratification for the final adoption of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. The worst and longest economic recession to hit the U.S. would define the end of the decade-The Great Depression.

Within this environment, five coeds envisioned a sorority that would directly affect positive change, chart a course of action for the 1920s and beyond, raise people’s consciousness, encourage the highest standards of scholastic achievement, and foster a greater sense of unity among its members. These women believed that sorority elitism and socializing overshadowed the real mission of progressive organizations and failed to address fully the societal mores, ills, prejudices, and poverty affecting humanity in general and the black community in particular.

The organization has been innovative because it has chronicled several firsts. It was the first National Pan-Hellenic Council organization to centralize its operations in a national headquarters, first to charter a chapter in Africa, first to form auxiliary groups, and first to be constitutionally bound to a fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated.

As the sorority celebrates 103 years since it’s founding today, it retains its original zest for excellence. It espouses the highest academic ideals, resulting in its members serving in groundbreaking roles in all fields of endeavor.

Watch us closely this year as members of the sorority Embrace The S.W.E.L.L. by providing Service, World-Wide Wellness, Extraordinary Leadership and Legacy during this year of the International Woman for our sisterhood.

Happy Founders’ Day!

As an organization steeped in service, it is befitting that we have the honor of celebrating our 103rd Founders’ Day on the 2023 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service. Annually, Zetas worldwide put their hand to the plow by raising awareness for causes through in-person service and financial support.

This year, we invite you to join us as we raise funds for the Liberia Cancer Resource Initiative, an intermediary service organization that creates awareness about cancer, provides access to funding sources, and serves as an actionable and functional support network for women in Monrovia, Liberia. Through our collaboration, Zeta Phi Beta will provide breast, and cervical exams for women and additional financial support should treatment be required through our chapter on the ground in the area, Delta Iota Zeta.

Kick off your philanthropic season by adding this worthy cause to your list of organizations you support to make a difference.

Donate today >> zphib1920.org/global-day-of-service

Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Incorporated, the first collegiate African-American sorority, was founded on the campus of Howard University on January 15, 1908 in our nation’s capital, a community where African-American women had few opportunities for social standing, goods, and services at the time. While Washington, D.C. was reforming to the City Beautiful Movement, which promoted the idea of beautifying urban community architecture, the ladies of Alpha Kappa Alpha saw a larger purpose at stake. Washington, D.C. could not be reformed without acknowledging the lack of order in the African American community's education, health, and leadership representation.

Over the years, the sorority has established programs to provide and improve education, health care, international development, and strengthen the African-American community.

Locally, the sorority’s 1,046 undergraduate and graduate chapters in the U.S. and abroad continue to be pillars of outreach through programs such as feeding the homeless, providing college scholarships to young adults, hosting seminars for mental health awareness, and educational programs for the senior community. Nationally, Alpha Kappa Alpha has raised more than $2.1 billion to help Historically Black Colleges and Universities secure financial stability and accreditation. Internationally, Alpha Kappa Alpha members have answered the call to service by providing over 200 Power Packs per chapter on weekends and holidays for local children through their signature program CHIPP™ (Childhood Hunger Initiative Power Pack).

Today, over 320,000 women around the world who proudly represent this elite legacy celebrate 115 years of service to all mankind. Happy Founders’ Day to the women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.

Despite racial inequality and Jim Crow laws, with the prevalence of segregation, struggle for social justice and equality, African American women created their own sororities as communities of resistance that would allow them to survive and achieve in an oppressive society, refute stereotypes and celebrate their own cultures.

On January 13, 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. was founded with a precedent to fight for equal rights for African American women with a desire to make change and address issues regarding public service, social activism and women’s advancement. Led by 22 women, they forged a path forward on the campus of Howard University seeking to bring change upon the American landscape that still embraced overt racism and s*xism as acceptable aspects of everyday life.

Historically, the ladies of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have served as pillars in the Women’s Suffrage Procession to protest for women’s rights, enacted laws and policies to sustain and expand the rights and privileges of all people, and became the first sorority to provide a program of employment counseling and career development for African American women. The servant sisterhood has devoted its organization’s efforts to promote educational and economic development, political involvement, physical, mental and international awareness to the highest standards.

Today, there are over 350,000 women and 1,000 chapters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. globally. We celebrate and congratulate you on 110 ‘devastating’ years of Sisterhood, Scholarship, Service and Social Action for the community.

Happy Founders’ Day Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc!

Also known as “modern slavery,” human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings through recruitment or abduction through force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of forced labor, debt bo***ge, or s*xual exploitation.

Human trafficking victims are often forced, through s*xual, physical, and psychological violence, to perform work under slavery-like conditions.

+ 24.9 million people are victims of forced labor.
+ 4.8 million people are trafficked for forced s*xual exploitation.
+ Women and girls are disproportionately affected by human trafficking, accounting for 71% of all victims.
+ 3.8 million adults are trafficked for forced s*xual exploitation, and 1.0 million children are trafficked for commercial s*xual exploitation.

On this , Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated encourages everyone to learn the indicators of someone who may be a victim of human trafficking and how you can safely assist them by visiting https://www.state.gov/identify-and-assist-a-trafficking-victim/

UWF Students are you interested in being a Finer Woman? Our Sorority is the only NPHC Sorority that
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Come to our informational and learn what that means💙🕊

At a time in our history when many African Americans were migrating from the rural south to more industrious cities to gain access to education and better jobs amid racial discrimination and turmoil, three visionary student leaders wanted to make a difference and create a true impact. These collegiate men founded Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. on January 9, 1914, on the campus of Howard University with the distinct mission to pursue scholastic excellence and provide direct service to the community.

Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc set a new standard and culture of inclusion for Greek-letter organizations. This trailblazing brotherhood was the first organization to establish alumni chapters, youth mentoring clubs, collegiate chapters outside the U.S., and the only organization to have a distinct hand in the founding of a sorority, which they took further by making the partnership a legal entity and created a joint constitution between the two organizations. Your collective pact with our beloved sisterhood, the first and only of its kind among the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. infrastructure, is a powerful example and continues to exemplify what’s possible through collaboration and unity.

Today, with over 225,000 brothers in over 700 chapters across 4 continents, Phi Beta Sigma continues to be an essential part of communities around the globe, and you continue to build on the hope and legacy of your founders. They are proud of your hard work, dedication, and deep commitment to serving and transforming lives.

Happy Founders’ Day to our brothers of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. We celebrate and congratulate you today on 109 years of Culture for Service and Service for Humanity!

Kappa Alpha Psi®, a college Fraternity, was born in an environment saturated in racism. The state of Indiana became the 19th state of the Union in 1816 and it founded Indiana University in Bloomington four years later. This city was largely populated by settlers from below the Mason-Dixon line and therefore found many sympathizers of the Southern cause. The state of Indiana became a stronghold for the Ku Klux Klan.

In the school years of 1910-11, a small group of Black students attended Indiana University. Most of them were working their way through school. Realizing that they had no part in the social life of the university and drawn together by common interests, they decided that a Greek-letter fraternity would do much to fill the missing link in their college existence. On January 5, 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi® Fraternity, Incorporated was founded.

Locally, the fraternity’s 700 undergraduate and graduate chapters in the U.S. and abroad continue to be stalwart community servants through outreach activities such as feeding the homeless, providing scholarships to young people matriculating to college, serving as mentors to young men, and serving as hosts of seminars for public health awareness. Nationally, Kappa Alpha Psi ® has provided funds for St. Jude Medical Research Center to assist in the fight against childhood catastrophic diseases by raising more than $1 Million. Internationally, Kappa Alpha Psi® members have answered the call to service by proudly serving our military in wars since WWI and raising funds to assist those in need following natural disasters around the world, including hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons and earthquakes.

Today, the over 125,000 men around the world who proudly represent this rich legacy celebrate 112 years of impact. Happy Founders’ Day to the men of Kappa Alpha Psi® Fraternity, Incorporated.

Kappa Alpha Psi®, a college Fraternity, was born in an environment saturated in the dark past of American history. The state of Indiana became the 19th state of the Union in 1816 and it founded Indiana University in Bloomington four years later. This city was largely populated by settlers from below the Mason-Dixon line and therefore found many sympathizers of the Southern cause. The state of Indiana became a stronghold for oppression.

In the school years of 1910-11, a small group of Black students attended Indiana University. Most of them were working their way through school. Realizing that they had no part in the social life of the university and drawn together by common interests, they decided that a Greek-letter fraternity would do much to fill the missing link in their college existence. On January 5, 1911 Kappa Alpha Psi® Fraternity, Incorporated was founded.

Locally, the fraternity’s 700 undergraduate and graduate chapters in the U.S. and abroad continue to be stalwart community servants through outreach activities such as feeding the homeless, providing scholarships to young people matriculating to college, serving as mentors to young men, and serving as hosts of seminars for public health awareness. Nationally, Kappa Alpha Psi ® has provided funds for St. Jude Medical Research Center to assist in the fight against childhood catastrophic diseases by raising more than $1 Million. Internationally, Kappa Alpha Psi® members have answered the call to service by proudly serving our military in wars since WWI and raising funds to assist those in need following natural disasters around the world, including hurricanes, tornadoes, typhoons and earthquakes.

Today, the over 125,000 men around the world who proudly represent this rich legacy celebrate 112 years of impact. Happy Founders’ Day to the men of Kappa Alpha Psi® Fraternity, Incorporated.

May this new year be your best year yet!

In the spirit of Imani (Faith), the final principle of , we share the following from Frantz Omar Fanon, a French West Indian psychiatrist, an intellectual and political philosopher whose works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. "We must invent, innovate, reach inside ourselves and dare 'set afoot a new man and woman.' The world and our people are waiting for something new, more beautiful and beneficial from us than what a past of oppression has offered."

In this vein, the women of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated embark upon our programmatic theme for 2023, "The Year of the International Woman: Serving and Advocating for Health Justice at Home and Abroad." We look forward to executing initiatives stateside and internationally through our local chapter footprint that profoundly transforms lives and communities.

From adopt-a-highway locations in communities in the United States to park beautification to repainting schools to building houses and schools in underserved communities around the world, Zeta women embody the spirit of Kuumba, today’s principle of beautifying the world and leaving it better than we inherited it.

In the new year, consider partnering with your local Zeta chapter in the work they do to enhance your local community by volunteering side-by-side or donating to an initiative they sponsor in line with your goals to have an impact to change the world.

As an organization with a membership of college-educated women with degrees ranging from bachelor's to doctorates in various disciplines, Zeta women have a presence in C-suites, corporations, education administration, and nonprofits. Through intentional mentorship and the sharing of lived experience with participants in our organization’s structured youth auxiliary continuum and young girls in communities worldwide, life skills are developed and their purposes defined.

On this fifth day of , Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated is proud to say that our sisterhood recognizes and celebrates the principle of Nia, purpose, every day through our committed service.

Day four of the holiday is the principle of Ujamaa. It celebrates the spirit of cooperative economics to build businesses, control the economics of our community, and share in all its work and wealth. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated is intentionally supporting black-owned small companies at every national conference by encouraging participation in our exhibition space and product inclusion in bags put in the hands of thousands of registrants in attendance. As a successful entrepreneur, President Grant will be launching “Women Who Win” in 2023, a Zeta initiative providing business development and coaching to members of the sorority and women in the community who are small business owners to help them become cash flow positive.

On this third day of , Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated proudly recognizes the principle of Ujima, collective work and responsibility.

For 102 years, Zeta members have been revitalizing and reshaping communities by bringing much-needed resources and programming to neighborhoods around the globe. From serving mining communities in Pennsylvania during the Great Depression years to realizing the need across continents and being the first organization to plant boots on the ground and charter a chapter in Africa. Zeta women remain stalwarts of education and scholarship through the establishment of a national educational foundation providing monies to offset the cost of college alongside the distribution of thousands of dollars in scholarships on the local level through chapters and an organizational award in the amount of $125K to a deserving high school graduate. Through partnerships with NGOs with core value similarities such as The March of Dimes, St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, The American Cancer Society, Micah’s Voice, and the National Council of Negro Women, Zeta Phi Beta continues to expand its footprint of Ujima transforming lives by being living examples of one of its organizational principles, service.

As undergraduates at Howard University, the Founders of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated possessed a deep understanding of today’s principle, Kujichagulia. Translated into self-determination, our trailblazing Founders believed in the need for a new and different type of Greek-lettered organization and acted upon that need. To these women, Zeta was more than an organization – it was a movement. This belief system reflected, at its core, the desire to provide true Service, embrace Scholarship, set a standard for Sisterly Love, and define the noble concept of Finer Womanhood. This belief has sustained and encouraged Zetas worldwide to hold fast to the ideals initiated and developed by its earliest members.
�The Founders of Zeta were strong, principled coeds who possessed a great deal of modesty, strength of character, and pride in academic achievement. They are a worthy foundation upon which to base our illustrious Sorority as they defined, created and spoke into existence what they believed was needed for communities to transform and thrive, the embodiment of self-determination.

Kwanzaa is an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrating family, community, and culture. It was created in 1966 by American activist, author, and Africana Studies professor Dr. Maulana Karenga. A seven-day cultural festival, Kwanzaa begins today, December 26th and ends January 1st annually.

During Kwanzaa, families and communities organize activities around the Nguzo Saba (The Seven Principles). Over the next week Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated will proudly celebrate the holiday with corporations and organizations around the globe.

Today, we recognize the principle of UMOJA (Unity). As a sisterhood of servants, we move forward unified to change communities worldwide.

Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays!

Happy Birthday to our Most Honorable and Triumphant Founder Fannie Pettie Watts 💙💙💙💙💙🕊

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On this Finer Friday, we would like to congratulate our very own Tiara Smith ( ) for her RN program pinning ceremony. CongratulationZ Soror! We hope to see you grow and heal many in your future
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The day has officially come and gone
my pinning ceremony for the RN program! I have the honor of leading the Nightingale pledge with my fellow classmates! I thank all of you for your continuous support, prayers and well wishes! Next stop NCLEX! Registered Nurse loading.....💙🩺🫶🏾

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We are wishing a Happy Zetaversary to Fall '15 💙💙💙💙💙🕊

5 EpitomeZ of the Dove
Christen Brown *x2
Khoraly Bernard
Jhosihnary Diaz
Danielle Lockamy
Kiah Turner

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Developing leaders, and promoting brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for our communities has been the foundation of the first National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. founded fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated.

From their long-standing commitment to voter engagement through their A Voteless People is a Hopeless People” (aka VPHP) National Program launched during the 1930s and The “Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College” program, established in 1922, which concentrates on the importance of completing secondary and collegiate education as a road to advancement, to their Charitable Foundation, which focuses on urban education and growing resources and partnerships to aggressively attack the lack of innovation, achievement, preparation often found in these environments, the men of Alpha continue to make a life-changing impact as they expand the service footprint in communities in need globally.

Wishing a happy 116th Founders’ Day to our National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc. partner-in-service, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity!

Code Name: Blue O.P.S. has now completed training and is ready for action. 🔵⚪️🔊

It’s a long hard road to become a Zeta lady. A Finer Woman nurtures, builds, and is attentive toward their community. They take care of scholastic responsibilities, and focus on uplifting other women.

Welcoming the S.O.L.E Survivor of the mission, The Noble and Elegant LadieZ of the Nu Eta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. introduces to you our Fall 2022 intake class:

LaDeshia Caver:

On this Finer Friday, we are highlighting this month which is HIV/AIDS awareness month💙🕊

HIV stands for “human immunodeficiency virus.” It’s a virus that can only infect humans and leads to the weakening of the immune system. The immune system is the body’s system for fighting disease. When it’s compromised or weakened, a person becomes vulnerable to all kinds of bacteria, viruses, or other agents that cause disease. When HIV is left untreated, it can wreak havoc on a person’s immune system. As this happens, the body is less able to fight off infections.

AIDS stands for “Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome,” which means the immune system has been made less effective by HIV. When this happens, a person is considered to have an acquired immune deficiency or AIDS.

According to the CDC, HIV risk remains high among Black and Latinx MSM populations.

Preventive methods includes having safe s*x, not sharing needles, and if medically recommended taking a daily medication called PrEP.

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On This Zeta WedneZday, we are providing words of wisdom💙🕊


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Today is the LAST day to RSVP for the informational!! *Virtual option available

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