Documentary addresses the stigma of mental illness

As a University of Missouri student, Alex Lindley learned through grieving the death of two friends how the stigma of mental illness keeps people from seeking help....

First black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, elected

Montgomery, Alabama, elected its first African American mayor in its nearly 200 year history, and he’s a fraternity man. Steven L. Reed, a probate judge, garnered about 67%...

Chi Psi brother gives $350 million to university

Credit card billionaire T. Denny Sanford has long said he wants to die broke, an ambition that has made him one of the most generous philanthropists in...
Troy Harris

Pi Kappa Phi alumnus serves as police chief

Pi Kappa Phi alumnus Troy Harris, some 25 years removed from his days as an undergraduate at Purdue University, recently celebrated his first six months as the...

Alpha Phi Alpha brother guides President’s urban policy

WASHINGTON, D C. - Ja’Ron Smith says politicians never showed up in Cleveland’s Lee Harvard neighborhood when he was growing up there, unless it was an election...

Alumnus meets bone marrow recipient

As a first-year student at Elon, Jerome Lewis '10 made a life-saving decision — to register with Be the Match to potentially become a bone marrow donor.  This...

Brothers Launch Fastest-Growing Black-Owned Luxury Hat Brand

Two friends, Archie Clay III and Tajh Crutch, have teamed up to create fashionable fedora hats. Two years ago, they launched Brims and since then, they have been working...

Fraternity honors George Washington Carver with service day

Residents are reviving operations at the Community Service Center of Joplin, and a volunteer fraternity group that visited over the weekend furthered that cause. Members of Phi Beta...

Campus activism led alum to dedicate career to civic engagement

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Brian Mateo is a two-time Penn State graduate who, while on campus, devoted much of his out-of-classroom time to working under the umbrella...

Helping hurricane victims

Daytona, Florida, local organizations including fraternity undergraduate and alumni chapters came together last week to help Bahamian survivors of Hurricane Dorian. The many donated supplies and items...

Detroit millionaire pioneers Twitter charity

Bill Pulte, grandson of the late founder of home-building giant PulteGroup, a company that started in Detroit nearly 70 years ago as Pulte Homes, rose to social media stardom...

‘Little Brother’ Receives Kidney Donation from ‘Big’

CLARION, Pa. – Relationships made in a fraternity can last a lifetime. Sometimes they can even help save a life. In 1973, Michael Klimkos picked Ott Quarles to be his...