Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. – Famous Members

Marian Anderson

First Black woman to sing at the Metropolitan Opera.

Dr. Maya Angelou

Renowned novelist, poet, educator, dancer. National Ambassador for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, Grammy winner for Best Spoken Word.

Suzette Charles

Miss America 1984, contemporary singer and actress

Ella Fitzgerald

Internationally famous jazz singer, known as the “First Lady of Song”.

Dr. Mae Jemison

An accomplished physician, she became the first African-American woman astronaut as a member of the Shuttle Endeavour crew in 1992.

Star Jones

Lawyer, former assistant district attorney and former NBC news correspondent. She is also a past 2nd Supreme President of AKA. She is currently a co-host of TV Show “The View”.

Coretta Scott King

Civil Rights Activist, Director of Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Social Change and Civil Rights Activism.

Gladys Knight

Accomplished singer and actress.

Toni Morrison

Nobel prize winning novelist and poet whose works include Song of Solomon and Beloved.

Ntozake Shaunge

Author of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf.

Jada Pinkett-Smith

Actress whose works include: Matrix: Revolutions, The Nutty Professor, Set It Off, Menace II Society, and A Different World.