

Groove Phi Groove SFI - New Jersey Graduate Chapter
P.O. Box 110
Hillside, NJ 07205
Today In History
February Is Black History Month
- In 1961- Robert Weaver sworn in as Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, highest federal post to date for an African American
- In 1976- Clifford Alexander, Jr. is confirmed as the first African American Secretary of the Army
- In 1990- Nelson Mandela released from prison after 27 years as South African political prisoner
- In 1996- Penn's Baccalaureate Speaker was the Right Reverend Barbara Clementine Harris, a Philadelphian who was the first woman ever to become a bishop in the Anglican Communion.
- In 2016- Dr. Paula Johnson, a Harvard Medical School faculty member, is named as the 14th President of Wellesley College, becoming the first African American to hold the position
- In 2017- Michael Tubbs sworn in as the first African American mayor of Stockton, CA and the youngest person to hold that office
To Inspire You
The challenge of the 21st century is not to demand equal opportunity in the machinery of oppression, but rather to identify and dismantle those structures in which racism continues to be embedded
Angela Davis