Zeta Gamma Lambda vs Abolitionist Sanctuary

This official Zeta Gamma Lambda App is for members of the chapter to find out about our events, chat with Chapter members, View Chapter Documents, View Chapter Directory, and much more. The ability to effectively communicate with Chapter members will help us continue to develop leaders, promote brotherhood and academic excellence, while providing service and advocacy for our community. The App also allows guest to view many features of the app in the GuestView. Guest can also receive push notifications of Chapter and Community events. As a Guest you can also contact the Brothers, with any questions, or comments. Since its founding on December 4, 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has supplied voice and vision to the struggle of African-Americans and people of color around the world. Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African-Americans, was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country. The visionary founders, known as the “Jewels” of the Fraternity, are Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy. The Fraternity initially served as a study and support group for minority students who faced racial prejudice, both educationally and socially, at Cornell. The Jewel founders and early leaders of the Fraternity succeeded in laying a firm foundation for Alpha Phi Alpha’s principles of scholarship, fellowship, good character, and the uplifting of humanity. Alpha Phi Alpha chapters were established at other colleges and universities, many of them historically black institutions, soon after the founding at Cornell. The first Alumni Chapter was established in 1911. While continuing to stress academic excellence among its members, Alpha also recognized the need to help correct the educational, economic, political, and social injustices faced by African-Americans. Alpha Phi Alpha has long stood at the forefront of the African-American community’s fight for civil rights through leaders such as: W.E.B. DuBois, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Edward Brooke, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young, William Gray, Paul Robeson, and many others. True to its form as the “first of firsts,” Alpha Phi Alpha has been interracial since 1945.

MISSION Abolitionist Sanctuary is a national coalition of Black-serving churches, civic organizations and communities trained in abolitionist principles to unite against the moral crisis of mass incarceration and the criminalization of impoverished Black motherhood. We are abolitionists who collectively make a radical investment in liberation and communal flourishing achieved through education, consulting, and civic engagement. Our educational commitment is to train faith and civic leaders to apply abolitionist principles to repair, restore, and rebuild just and equitable communities. As consultants, we advise organizations to integrate solutions that strengthen diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. As community organizers, we create transformative justice strategies to increase civic engagement that affirms the inherent worth of underrepresented groups, especially impoverished Black mothers. VISION We envision training a faith-based abolitionist movement to repair harms, restore relationships, and rebuild a more just and equitable society for impoverished Black mothers to flourish beyond punishment, policing, and prisons. VALUES We follow a 5C-value system derived from the survival strategies of Black mothers who struggle to provide for themselves and their families against interlocking systems of oppression. These values counter the vices of condemnation, neglect, conformity, cowardice, and individualism—all of which support and perpetuate carceral systems. MEMBERS Members of Abolitionist Sanctuary work to build a national coalition united against the moral crisis of mass incarceration and the criminalization of impoverished Black motherhood. As a membership community, we apply abolitionist principles and transformative justice strategies to repair, restore, and rebuild a more just and equitable society. We create solutions that affirm the inherent worth of underrepresented groups, especially impoverished Black mothers. All members, regardless of membership type, receive the following benefits: 1. Social Network. Full access to AbolitionistSanctuary.org to socialize, organize, and mobilize with a community of abolitionists. Includes access to membership directory, social groups, and mobile app. 2. Abolition Academy. Full access to AbolitionAcademy.com to advance the study, teaching, research, and practice of abolitionist principles. 3. Resources. Receive exclusive access to podcasts, studies, book club, facilitated discussions, mentorship, programming, and an invitation to membership meetings with the Executive Director, Board members, and experts. 4. News & Jobs. Full access to news about Abolitionist Sanctuary, its members, current events, call-to-actions, and a job board. 5. Discounts. Receive discounts on event tickets, such as the Annual Gala and other educational and community-based programs.