Thus, in the same period of the founding of the Boulé was the founding of what is called the 4 “black male” (Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega Psi Phi, and Phi Beta Sigma) and the 4 “black female” (Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, and Sigma Gamma Rho) college-based fraternities and sororities, according to the book Noble Drew Ali & The Moorish Science Temple of America: The Movement That Started It All. Taking away the articulate negro, now desiring to replace them with organized institutions to keep them away from self-improvement.”
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Members of Boulé are supposedly the “ talented 10th” DuBois is noted for speaking of, hence, the organization sought to keep such select group of black professionals to itself.ĭuBois stresse d, according to Cokely: “The importance to steal the black professional away from Garvey because an Afrocentric organization that articulated and captured the black professional would give whitey no safe haven in the black community, so the Boule’ - the remaking of the house negro was necessary to build a group of negroes who had an investment in protecting the white system as produced by whitey having stolen this land…This is post reconstruction. The fraternity is believed to have been fashioned after a secret society founded at Yale University called Skull & Bones. In 1911, 10 students gathered on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington and began a tradition that has expanded to a membership 150,000 members strong worldwide. It is even documented that DuBois, the founding member of the New York City chapter of the Boulé once said, “The Boule was created to keep the black professional away from Marcus Garvey”.īoulé, pronounced “ boo lay”, in Ancient Greece “was a council of chiefs”. Today marks the founding date of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., better known among Black Letter Greek Organizations as the Nupes. Conspiracy theorist and futurologist Steve Cokely, seen as the first to shine the light on the Boulé in the early to mid-90s, is reported to have described the fraternity as “powerful gatekeepers and foot soldiers for white supremacy.”
Still, critics have viewed the organization as somewhat closed and have doubted their significant role. Photo: Emory News Center – Emory University Though it claims to be no longer “secret”, the fraternity still exists with “little fanfare” and one “that actively seeks to improve the lives of the citizens in the communities in which the members are associated through its social action and public policy programs and initiatives.” Members of the Kappa Boulé, the Atlanta chapter of Sigma Pi Phi, which was established in 1920. The prestigious professional fraternity was in its early years viewed as a secret organization until 1982 when it adopted a policy of limited and selected publicity, according to its website.
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