On Wednesday, January 15, 1908, our beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority was founded on the campus of Howard University, in Washington, D.C. Today, we celebrate 117 years of sisterhood, scholarship, and service to all mankind. We honor our nine pearls who dared to dream, led by our visionary Guiding Light Ethel Hedgemon Lyle, we speak their names: Anna Easter Brown, Beulah Elizabeth Burke, Lillie E. Burke, Marjorie Hill, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Lavinia Norman, Lucy Diggs Slowe, and Marie Woolfolk T