RIGHT NOW UNDER THE INVESTIGATES TAB. TONIGHT ONE OF THE OLDEST HISTORICALLY BLACK SORORITIES IN KANSAS CITY IS CELEBRATING 100 YEARS. KMBC NINE THERESA WHITE LIVE IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS TO EXPLAIN THE HISTORIC IMPACT THIS GROUP HAS HAD. TOURISM SAYS SEVERAL ESTEEMED LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT WERE RIGHT HERE TONIGHT TO CELEBRATE ONE SORORITY TURNING. 100. ANOTHER. AND TO APPLAUSE AND CHEERS ALONG WITH THE COLORS OF SALMON, PINK AND APPLE GREEN, FLOODED THE ROOM TONIGHT. ALL FOR AN EVENING OF RECOGNITION AND CELEBRATION. MAYOR TYRONE GARDNER, ONE OF THE OLDEST BLACK SORORITIES IN KANSAS CITY, TURNS 100. THAT’S ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY, INCORPORATED. MU OMEGA CHAPTER KC MO MAYOR PRO TEM REINA PARK, SHAW, WHO IS ALSO A MEMBER HERSELF, SAYS, THIS IS HISTORY. THIS IS MONUMENTAL. TO CELEBRATE 100 YEARS OF SISTERHOOD AND SERVICE AND SCHOLARSHIP IS JUST AWESOME, NOT JUST FOR FOR THE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS AREA, BUT KANSAS CITY REGION AS A WHOLE. THE SORORITY BEGAN AS A SAFE SPACE FOR BLACK WOMEN IN THE EARLY 1900S. THE COLLEGE WOMEN THAT WERE JUST ONE GENERATION REMOVED FROM SLAVERY WHO DECIDED TO COME TOGETHER FOR SERVICE TO ALL MANKIND, TO WHERE WE ARE NOW WITH OUR CHARTERING IN 1924, TO 2024, 100 YEARS OF OUR COMMUNITY HERE IN THE KANSAS CITY, KANSAS AREA IS UNHEARD OF. THE CHAPTER SAYS THEY’RE COMMITTED TO ANOTHER 100 YEARS