Discuss “Meet the black greeks”

On October 28, 2004, two CMU students stood in front of the campus community at the Fence as new brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Along with two other brothers, they wore nicely ironed black pants, white shirts, and black ties.

But something else stood out ? they wore skullcaps. That day marked the beginning of the resurgence of the black Greek community at Carnegie Mellon University.

This movement has its roots almost 100 years earlier, when Alpha Phi Alpha, the first fraternity for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Created by seven young men, the fraternity initially served as a study and support group for minority students at Cornell, who faced racial prejudices both educationally and...