Saturday, July 11, 2009
June 20: Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a fundraiser in Indiana. Clinton was inducted as an honorary member of the fraternity Phi Beta Sigma on Friday, the first and only U.S. president to be inducted into a historically black fraternity. (AP photo)
Phi Beta Sigma President Paul Griffin Jr. said Friday that Clinton is the first U.S. president to be inducted into a historically black fraternity.
Stevie Wonder, Al Roker, the Rev. Al Sharpton and jazz musician Ramsey Lewis are also honorary members of Phi Beta Sigma.
The fraternity was founded in 1914 at Howard University in Washington, D.C. It has more than 150,000 alumni and college members in about 500 chapters throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Africa and Asia.
