As long as she’s been on the political scene, Vice President and likely Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has proudly repped the salmon pink and apple green of Alpha Kappa Alpha.

In January 1908, 12 years before the 19th Amendment enfranchised women, a group of nine women students gathered on Howard University’s campus to create Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority ...

Howard's campus was the original birthplace of the sorority, founded in 1908. Alpha Kappa Alpha, or AKA, is the oldest Greek-letter organization created by African American college-educated women ...

Alpha Kappa Alpha is a historic African American ... the first female attorney for the Legal Defense Fund and wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education. The late Democratic ...