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xvii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost, all praises are due to the Creator. Thank you to my parents , sisters, and other relatives who provided tremendous support throughout this project. Thanks to Jen for consistently being there with support, encouragement , and advice. My Alpha brothers have also been a huge support and impetus for this project: my dean, assistant dean of pledges, dean of hell, spesh, and every Extension line have been the epitome of brotherhood. Also, thanks to my big brother, the reverend Barry Hargrove. Because of you, I know what true brotherhood is. Thanks to brother rashid Darden for his insight and guidance, especially with regard to the chapter on homosexuality in black fraternities. Thank you to brothers robert Harris and Zollie Stevenson for your advice in the latter stages of the project. Thanks to the various Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. chapters that inspired this work: Omicron Omicron (University of the District of Columbia), Nu Beta (George Washington, Georgetown, and American universities), Eta Zeta (Bowie State University), Iota Zeta (University of Maryland–College Park), Nu Kappa (University of Maryland–Baltimore County), rho rho (SUNy Stony Brook), Epsilon Chi (University of Kentucky), and Beta (Howard University). Thank you to Dr. Walter Kimbrough for his suggestions about the direction this book should take. And to Sonya, thanks for all the support and for listening to me talk endlessly about this book. This book would have been impossible to bring into fruition if it were not for the efforts of the contributing authors. Edited books are not easy to pull off, and as an editor, I can be a bit demanding. Thanks to all the authors who took my feedback into consideration, wrote and rewrote, and ultimately stuck with me on this project. I believe that we have a great book here and the beginning of something even greater. The leadership and national staff from a number of National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations aided me in finding potential contributors, providing research materials, and identifying funding sources for this project. Thank you to Alpha Phi Alpha’s Darryl Matthews (general president), Dr. robert Harris (national historian), Willard Hall (executive director), William Lyle (communications director), Darryl Peal (Midwestern region vice president), Michael Blake (chair, College Brothers’ Affairs), and Horace Dawson (chair, World Policy Council); Kappa Alpha Psi’s richard Snow (executive director) and Andre Early (director of undergraduate affairs); Alpha Kappa Alpha’s Dr. Betty James (executive director); Zeta Phi Beta’s Lois Sylver (executive director); and Sigma Gamma rho’s Dr. Mynora Bryant (international Grand Basileus) and Jennifer Jones (executive director). Also, I am grateful to the Association of Fraternity Advisors Foundation for its generous gift, which allowed this work to be completed. Last but not least, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to the University Press of Kentucky staff: Steven Wrinn, Melinda Wirkus, Hap Houlihan, Mack McCormick , Allison Webster, Wyn Morris, Leila Salisbury, and Anne Watkins. you captured the essence of this project and ran with it. I appreciate all the support, hard work, and friendship. xviii Acknowledgments ...

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