The University of Alabama female students were officially integrated in 2013, but the Panhellenic Association remains primarily white. White students accounted for roughly 89% of potential new members, but in the spring of 2021 they accounted for about 85% of the UA faculty population, according to the university’s newspaper The Crimson White. According to the paper, approximately 1.3% of the pledges identified as blacks were bided, and 97% of Black PNMs who completed the recruitment process.
Bamarush briefly describes the history of God, an organization of nine historically African-American Greek letters, including Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first African-American sorority in the column of female students.
Interracial Leanne explained why she decided to hurry outside of God.
“To be in the D9 sorority, I feel there’s a connection to the history you need to have,” Leanne shares. “Even if I am more comfortable with who I am in a racial sense, I still feel that I am not in the right place because I was raised by white people.
Still, Leanne deals with the micro-attack, while one of the PNMs in the document characterizes, Mikalya Miller, opens up about the struggle of being an interracial woman.
“Everyone is just looking at you. “I think it’s just annoying.”
