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ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY, INCORPORATED MARKS CENTENNIAL WEEK WITH COMMEMORATION, CELEBRATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Last week, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, the esteemed African American women's service organization celebrated its Centennial with celebrity guest speakers, a fashion show, community service project at Martha's Table, an Empowerment Summit, and a Black Tie Gala.
Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) -- Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, reached its 100th year of service on Thursday, January 16, 2020. Seven years of planning came to fruition for one of the country's largest African American women's organizations.
Valerie Hollingsworth Baker, Zeta's International Centennial President, kicked off the week with a design collaboration with St. John's exclusive line of Zeta-inspired apparel. Other activities throughout the week featured:
- Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser
- Attorney and Zeta member Anita Hill
- Former Congresswoman and Zeta member Donna Edwards
- Award-winning journalist April Ryan,
- Singer Chaka Khan,
- Actress Vivica A. Fox
- Actor Lamman Rucker
- R&B artist and native Washingtonian Raheem DeVaughn
- R&B artist and Zeta member Syleena Johnson
- The Chuck Brown Band and...
- The Zeta International Choir.
International Centennial President Hollingsworth Baker and four other past Zeta's International Presidents, Dr Jylla Moore Tearte, Barbara Carpenter, Sheryl Underwood and Mary Breaux Wright, spent each day of the week setting a new standard of greatness and impact for the organization. The events celebrating and honoring the blossoming what Zeta's five brave women founders started one-hundred years ago were remarkable.
