The relevancy of Black fraternities and sororities may be a recurring theme on the national level, but local chapters are proving their worth.
From providing communities with informational resources to gutting houses, undergraduate and alumni members are providing the service their founders intended, as well as helping rebuild a fractured city.
Chavez Cammon, a political science/criminal justice major at Southern University at New Orleans and president of the Epsilon Nu chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, said his chapter is ready to work.
“We’re in the process of setting up a partnership to adopt one of the schools in the recovery school district near SUNO,” said Cammon, whose chapter has also set up voter registration drives and political awareness campaigns.However, Cammon said there is plenty yet to be done.
“We have a young leadership among the student government, and there’s a movement to get all the organizations on campus together and figure out how we can all make a difference as undergrads.”
Ross Johnson, a graduate of Dillard University and chaplain for the citywide alumni chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, said that in his opinion undergraduate chapters are working hard.However, Johnson said for those members of the Greek black letter organizations that his challenge is simple: “You are mandated to service, and it’s time show up and serve.”
