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Prominent Poodles


Soror Vivian White Marbury
Our Last Living Founder
(d. 2000)

Victoria Rowell
Actress/Foster Care Activist"

MC Lyte
Rapper


Soror Mother Love 
Actress, Radio & TV Personality


Soror Anna Maria Horsford
Actress & Director


Soror Maysa
Jazz Artist


Soror "Lindy" Corinne Boggs
1st female U.S. representative from Louisiana and 1st Woman to Chair National Convention of a major American Political Party


Soror  Rev. Willie T. Barrow
Director of Operations
Operation PUSH/Rainbow Coalition


Soror Cheryl Broussard
Financial Advisor & Author


Soror Lee Chamberlin
Actress


Soror Tonya Lee Williams
Actress


Soror Venessa Bell Armstrong
Gospel Recording Artist/ Singer


Soror Corrine Brown
U.S. Representative Florida


Soror Cynthia Horner
Magazine Editor,
Right On Magazine


Soror Dr. Lillian M. Beard, MD
Former Columnist 
Good Houskeeping Magazine 


Soror Hattie McDaniels-
First African- American Actress to win an Oscar- Best Supporting Actress in
"Gone with the Wind"


Soror Leighann Lord 
Comedian


Soror Lorraine E. Hale, Ph.D.
Former Columnist Executive director Hale House Center, Inc.

Loretta Devine

 

 

 

 

 

Loretta Divine “Actress” featured on Waiting to Exhale


Soror Miss Dupree:
Radio Personality on the
"Tom Joyner Morning Show"


     
Soror Brenda Joysmith
                Artist Soror

Ellia English “Actress”on right- featured on the Jamie Fox Show

 

 

 

 

  

·         Soror Rev. Barbara Jean Allen - Assistant Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago

·         Soror Deacon Shirley Bims-Ellis - Administrator: Center for African Bible Studies, IL

·         Soror Jocelyn Brown - National Sales Director ESSENCE Magazine

·         Soror Gwendolyn Cherry - Former Florida Congresswoman

·         Soror Alice Childress - Author of "A Hero Ain't Nothing But A Sandwich"

·         Soror Merri Dee - Community Affairs Director WGN-TV, Chicago

·         Soror Ellia English - Actress, co-star on the "Jamie Fox Show"

·         Soror Emily D. Gunter - Motivational speaker, Author of Superlearning 2000:The new Technologies of Self Empowerment

·         Soror Lorraine E. Hale, Ph.D. - Executive director Hale House Center, Inc. New York

·         Soror Dr. Alma Illery - humanitarian and Founder of George Washington Carver Commemoration. Through her efforts, Congress issued a Carver Stamp in 1944.

·         Soror Alice Hille Jackson - Creative Artist, Co-Creater/Producer of Hal Jackson's Miss Talented Teen Pageant

·         Soror Marie Lafontant - Founder and President of Haitian Research Center

·         Soror Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke - a lawyer in Washington, D.C.; Writer and self-publisher of three books of poetry: MY SOUL SPEAKS, I AM MY SISTA'S KEEPER and BABY, I GOT IT BAD FOR YOU BLUES

·         Soror Linda McClure - model, actress, and niece to founder Soror Cubena McClure

·         Soror Marilyn McCoo - singer and recording artist

·         Soror Nancy E. McCormick - Executive Assistant to U.S. Representative and NAACP President Kweisi Mfume

·         Soror Charlotte Ottley - Public Relations Specialist, CEO C. Ottley Strategies

·         Soror L. Marion Poe - First African-American woman to be admitted to the bar in the Southern U.S.

·         Soror Betrice Powell - Senior Director Mary Kay Cosmetics

·         Soror Brenda Pressley - Actress

·         Soror Erika R. Ragland - Committee on Labor and Human Responses on Capitol Hill.

·         Soror Ruth V. Sims - Administrator: National Projects Director of the NAACP

·         Soror April Sinclair - Author of "Coffee Will Make You Black" and "Ain't Goin' Be The Same Fool Twice"

·         Soror Chizu Shindo Suzuki - Japanese Artist and Writer

·         Soror Pat Tobin - Public Relations Specialist, Principle, Pat Tobin & Associates

·         Soror Judge Joyce Williams Warren - The First African- American Judge in Arkansas

·         Soror Chastity Washington - comedian and dancer

Soror Mary Washington - First African-American CPA

·         Soror Rosa Page Welch - Famed Mezzo Soprano & Lecturer, "Ambassador of Goodwill" in interracial relations

·         Soror Ruth Whitehead Whaley - First African-American woman to actively practice law in the U.S.

·         Soror Priscilla Williams White - Author of "The Children- What Shall We Tell Them About God?"

·         Soror Ruth Russell Williams - Artist and Entreprenuer, her artwork is sold at JCPenney, Nordstroms & Micheals nationally and internationally. Her works include The Baptism, Family Reunion,The Graduation, Old Time Revival, & Kitchen Beautician. She created the promotional artwork, BigBookBag for the sorority's current project of the same name.

And many many more coming soon!


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