Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Celebrates in Style After 100 Years
Posted on July 18th, 2008
Alpha Kappa Alpha celebrated its 100th birthday in style this week.
The African-American sorority held a dinner at DC's Walter E. Washington Convention Center that the Washington Business Journal described as "the largest-known banquet-style dinner in the history of conventions." Over 17,000 guests attended the dinner and the caterers used 3.5 miles of linen table clothes for the event.
AKA is base in Chicago and was founded at Howard University. Among it's newest member is Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama, who recently accepted an invitation for induction into the sorority.
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