Twenty Pearls tells the story of the oldest Black-Greek letter sorority, founded in 1908 on the campus of Howard University, which boasts nearly 300,000 members across 50 states and 55 nations.“This is such an incredible moment in our history as we look at Black women,” says Deborah Riley Draper, the documentary’s director. “History and sisterhood, in the context of 113 years of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., has not appeared on the screen like this before and I think the world needed to understand what Black women looked like from 1908 to this moment and what all of the iterations were that allowed us to get here.”Draper says the documentary doesn’t just chronicle the history of her sorority but it serves as a love letter to all Black.
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