This post features men of notoriety who are repping the Kappa Alpha Psi brand.
Y'lan Noel
Date of Birth: August 19. 1988
Zodiac: Léo
Chapter Inducted: Omicron Chapter
School: New York University
Noel was born in Brooklyn, New York August 19. 1988. He was furthered raised in Queens until his family moved to Stone Mountain, Georgia. He is of Panamanian descent. He began attending Morehouse College and transferred to New York University. He is known for portraying Daniel King in the HBO television series Insecure.
Lecrae
Date of Birth: October 9. 1979
Zodiac:Libra
Chapter Inducted: Eta Gamma
School: Middle Tennessee University
Lecrae Devaughn Moore, mononymously known as Lecrae is an American Christian rapper, singer, songwriter, record and film producer, record executive, actor and entrepreneur.
Nnamdi Asomugha
Date of Birth: August 19, 1988
Zodiac: July 6. 1981
Chapter Inducted: Gamma Alpha
School: University of California Berkeley
Asomugha a American actor, producer, and former football cornerback. He played college football for the University of California, Berkeley, and was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. Nnamdi Asomugha was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, to Nigerian Igbo parents. He is married to actress Kerry Washington which he shares a son and daughter. In addition to his 11-season career in the NFL he is also an actor with roles in The Game, Friday Night Lights, and Sylvie's Love with Tessa Thompson.
J. Max Bond, Sr.
Date of Birth: unknown
Zodiac: unknown
Chapter Inducted: Iota Chapter
School: Roosevelt College
Bond was an American educator who was President of the University of Liberia during the 1950s.
Bond was born in Nashville, Tennessee, the son of a Congregational minister named James Bond and Jane Alice Bond (née Brown). He attended Roosevelt College in Chicago, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Southern California.
Keith Carlos
Date of Birth: December 19. 1987
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Chapter Inducted: Nu Chapter
School: Purdue University
Carlos is a former American football wide receiver and fashion model who became the first male winner of America's Next Top Model. Carlos signed with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League in 2011.
James Perkins Sr.
Date of Birth: unknown
Zodiac: unknown
Chapter Inducted: Gamma Phi
School: Alabama A&M
Perkins was the first African American mayor and is the incumbent mayor of Selma, Alabama. He won a run-off in 2000 and served two terms, lost his second bid for reelection in 2008, and won a third non-consecutive term in 2020.
Percy Ellis Sutton
Date of Birth: November 24. 1920
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Chapter Inducted: New York Alumni
School: Tuskegee University
Sutton was an American political and business leader. An activist in the Civil Rights Movement and lawyer, he was also a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X. He was the highest-ranking African-American elected official in New York City when he was Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, the longest tenure at that position. He later became an entrepreneur whose investments included the New York Amsterdam News and the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Sutton passed on December 26, 2009.
George H. Starke
Date of Birth: August 19, 1988
Zodiac:
Chapter Inducted: Pi Chapter
School: Morehouse College
Starke was the first Black student admitted to the University of Florida.
In 1958, Starke entered the University of Florida's law school. He was given police protection during his first semester at the university, due to a plot by the KKK to kill him.
Wilton Felton Russell (Bill Russell)
Date of Birth: February 12. 1934
Zodiac: Aquarius
Chapter Inducted: Gamma Alpha
School: University of California Berkeley
Russell was an American former professional basketball player who played as a center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969. A five-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a 12-time All-Star, he was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty that won eleven NBA championships during his 13-year career. Russell and Henri Richard of the National Hockey League are tied for the record of the most championships won by an athlete in a North American sports league. Russell led the San Francisco Dons to two consecutive NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956, and he captained the gold-medal winning U.S. national basketball team at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Carlton Wayne Reeves
Date of Birth: April 11. 1964
Zodiac: Aries
Chapter Inducted: Delta Delta
School: Jackson State University
Reeves is a United States District Judge of the is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Reeves was born in 1964 in Fort Hood, Texas,[2] and was raised in rural Yazoo City, Mississippi. Reeves was one of seven children, with three sisters and three brothers. Reeves was born in 1964 in Fort Hood, Texas, and was raised in rural Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Donald Lee Hollowell
Date of Birth: December 19. 1917
Zodiac: Sagittarius
Chapter Inducted: Beta Lambda
School: Lane College
Hollowell was an American civil rights attorney during the Civil Rights Movement, in the state of Georgia. He successfully sued to integrate Atlanta's public schools, Georgia colleges, universities and public transit, freed Martin Luther King Jr. from prison, and mentored civil rights attorneys (including Vernon Jordan and Horace Ward). The first black regional director of a federal agency (the EEOC), Hollowell is best remembered for his instrumental role in winning the desegregation of the University of Georgia in 1961. He is the subject of a 2010 documentary film, Donald L. Hollowell: Foot Soldier for Equal Justice. Hollowell passed on December 27, 2004.
Michael White
Date of Birth: August 13, 1988
Zodiac: Leo
Chapter Inducted: Zeta Chapter
School: Ohia State University
White is an American politician of the Democratic Party and was the 55th and second longest-serving mayor of Cleveland, Ohio encompassing three four-year terms, from 1990 to 2002. He was Cleveland's second African American mayor as well as the city's second youngest mayor.
Donald Paige (DeP)
Date of Birth: unknown
Zodiac: unknown
Chapter Inducted: Beta Beta
School: Texas College
Paige is a 4 time Grammy nominated American singer, actor and model based in Los Angeles, California, and a member of the Beta Beta chapter of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He released his debut single "For Me" in 2005. Donald "DeP" Paige specializes in skills that range from in front of the camera talents and behind the scenes business, this triple threat has been making waves for years. DeP's music is influenced by artists such as Donny Hathaway, Missy Elliott, Yolanda Adams, and Tank amongst several others. DeP has shared the stage and opened up for prominent music artists including Beyonce, Kanye West, John Legend, Chance The Rapper, Alicia Keys, Yolanda Adams, Kim Burrell, Andra Day, and Ne-Yo. He has also performed at 2016 TV Land Awards, 2016 ESPY Awards and 57th Annual Grammy Awards.
