Phylicia Rashād on the legacy of the AKAs highlighted in 'Twenty Pearls'

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Phylicia Rashād pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority at Howard University in Washington, DC, in 1968. Now, she's narrating a new documentary about the organization.

"When you pledge a fraternity or a sorority, you learn the names of the founders and the year in which it was founded," she told CNN."But the detailed history that's in this documentary, we did not learn that as pledgees.""Twenty Pearls" tells the story of the first Black sorority, which was founded in 1908 by nine women enrolled at Howard University. The AKAs, as members are called, currently number than 300,000 throughout the world.

Martin Luther King, Jr., whose wife Coretta Scott King was also an AKA.Rashād said that one of the things she loves about the documentary is that is focuses on the sorority being at the forefront of so much in history, including a healthcare initiative they started in Mississippi during the Great Depression that went on to help vaccinate Black people who were suffering under Jim Crow laws.

 

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That should be a very interesting documentary. Is it for CNN? PBS?

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Didn't she fervently defend Cosby and call his accusers liars?

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