Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Abergen.

This day January 30th, 1913, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority was legally incorporated

a major milestone for the Black Greek Letter Organization. And look, listeners, I know it's late January here and this moment in

1913 is when AKA is formally incorporated, it's important, but ask anyone in AKA about the most important

early date and they will mention January 15th

1908 which is known as Founders Day and that is celebrated every year a big date

but this is where I confess that we missed that hook.

We were going to do it on January 15th.

We got our wires crossed and we really want to do an episode of

at AKA.

So like, just pretend we're talking about the founding of the AKAs January 15th somewhere in

January 1908 1913 early years but look the point is alpha Kappa Alpha has a

membership now of more than 200,000 women in over 950 chapters in the

United States, several other countries, and an incredibly important and consequential group

that has all sorts of interesting ties as well as really incredible list of alumni so we will get

to that a little bit too but here to discuss the founding of the aka sorority are as always

Nicoleheimer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley. Hello, Jody.

Hey there. I thoroughly confused listeners about the hook, but look.

Listen, AKAs are celebrating all year. Exactly.

But you know, it is true, like you go to the AK website and it says

1908 in it, like the Founders Day, 1908, huge deal deal and I think we want to talk a little

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