Chaka Khan & Vivica Fox Become Honorary Members Of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc announced its new “2020 Honorary Member Candidates.”

Included in the group is legendary songstress Chaka Khan and actress Vivica A. Fox. Also included are fellow “finer women”, Archbishop Mary Floyd Palmer, the First African American Woman and First Non-Denominational Archbishop in the United States, and Linda L. Singh, the First African American and Female Adjunct General – MD National Guard (Retired).

Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded January 16, 1920, at Howard University, Washington, D.C.  The Klan was very active during this period and the Harlem Renaissance was acknowledged as the first important movement of Black artists and writers in the U.S.  This same year the Volstead Act became effective heralding the start of Prohibition and Tennessee delivered the crucial 36^th ratification for the final adoption of the 19^th amendment giving women the right to vote.  The worst and longest economic recession to hit the U.S. would define the end of the decade-The Great Depression.