Alpha Men are on the forefront of social change in America. Although we all pursue goals in diverse fields of interest, we share a common mission in uplifting the economic condition of all our people.    It is simply not enough for an Alpha Man to obtain a college degree, still a larger task remains. An Alpha Man must provide sound leadership in his community, being committed to service. He is charged to lend a hand to his fellow man.

Here are just a few of our esteemed brothers.

Business Leaders

Henry Brown - VP Marketing Anheuser Bush

Thomas Burrell - CEO, Burrell Advertising

W. Melvin Brown - CEO, American Development Corporation

Eugene Jackson - CEO, World African Network

Charles James, III - CEO, James Produce

John H. Johnson - Founder of Johnson Publications (pictured below)

Nathaniel Goldston - CEO & Founder, Gourmet Services, Inc,

Delano Lewis - President, National Public Radio (NPR)

Henry Parks - Founder, Parks Sausages, Inc.

Joshua Smith - CEO, Maxima Corporation

Civic Leaders

W.E.B. DuBois - Social Activist

Martin Luther King, Jr. - Civil Rights Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (pictured above)

Dick Gregory - Activist, Comedian (pictured above)

Lester Granger - Executive Director, National Urban League

Charles Hamilton Houston - NAACP Legal Counsel

Thurgood Marshall - First African-American U.S. Supreme Court Justice (pictured above)

Hugh B. Price - Executive Director, National Urban League (pictured below)

Paul Robeson - Actor, Athlete, Activist

Whitney M. Young Jr. - Executive Director, National Urban League

Federal Government

O. Rudolph Aggrey - U. S. Ambassador to Romania

Edward W. Brooke - U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

Lee P. Brown - Office of National Drug Control Policy/War on Drugs Program

U. W. Clemon - Federal Judge, U.S. District Court

William Coleman - U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Ronald Dellums - California, 9th District

Julian Dixon - California, 32nd District

Rep. Harold Ford - Tennessee, 9th District

William H. Gray - U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania

Earl Hilliard - Alabama, 7th District

James A. Joseph - U. S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa

Ralph Metcalfe - U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois

Samuel Pierce - U.S. Secretary of HUD

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - U.S. Representative, New York

Charles Rangel - Congressman, New York 15th District

Robert C. Scott - Virginia, 3rd District

Bennett Stewart - U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois

Andrew Young - U.N. Ambassador

Local Government

Dennis Archer - Mayor of Detroit Michigan

Richard Arrington - Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

Thomas V. Barnes - Mayor of Gary, Indiana

Marion Barry - Mayor of Washington D.C.

Willie Brown - Mayor of San Francisco, California

Emmanuel Cleaver - Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri

David Dinkins - Mayor of New York, New York

Maynard Jackson - Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia

Ernest N. Morial - First African-American Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana

Marc H. Morial - Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana

Norman Rice - Mayor of Seattle Washington

Eugene Sawyer - Mayor of Chicago, Illinois

Charles H. Davenport - First Afro-American Police Chief of Vicksburg, Miss.

Charles Price - Circuit Court Judge, Montgomery County, Maryland

Media / Entertainment

Gerald Albright - Jazz Musician

Darryl Bell - Actor, A Different World, School Daze

Tony Brown - Journalist, Television Producer

Countee Cullen - Poet

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington - Pianist/Composer (pictured above)

Lionel Hampton - Bandleader

Donny Hathaway - Singer, Musician

Keith Garrett - Executive Producer, Martin Network Television

Marc Gay - Singer, R&B group: SHAI

Mal Goode - First African-American Network Reporter

Carl Martin - Singer, R&B group: SHAI

Darnell Van Rensalier - Singer, R&B group: SHAI

Keenan Ivory Wayans - Actor/Producer (pictured above)

Sports Figures

John O. Brown - Basketball Coach, Dillard University

Quinn Buckner - NBA Player, Coach, Sportscaster

Greg Coleman - NFL's First African-American Punter

Wayne Embry - General Manager NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers

Charles Haley - Player, NFL's Dallas Cowboys

Carnell Lake - NFL Pittsburgh Steelers

Jesse Owens - 1936 Olympic Gold Medallist/Track and Field  (pictured above)

Fritz Pollard - First African-American All American Football Player

Mike Powell - World Record Holder Long Jump

Eddie Robinson - Coach/Grambling State University (pictured above)

Stuart Scott - ESPN Sportscaster (pictured above)

Art Shell - Coach/Kansas City Chiefs & Oakland Raiders, NFL Hall of Fame

Eddie Tolan - 1932 Olympic Gold Medallist, Track and Field

Gene Upshaw - Executive Director, NFL Player's Association

Lenny Wilkens - 1996 USA Olympic Basketball Coach, Atlanta Hawks/Cleveland Cavaliers (pictured below)

Reggie Williams - Player NFL's Cincinnati Bengals

Eric Wright - Player NFL's San Francisco '49ers

Educators/Scholars

Julius Chambers - Chancellor, North Carolina Central University

Thomas W. Cole, Jr. - President , Clark-Atlanta University

Thomas W. Cole, Sr. - President, Wiley College

James Costen, President Interdenominational Theological Ctr.

William B. DeLauder - President, Delaware State University

James Douglas - President, Texas Southern University

Norman Francis - President, Xavier University

John Hope Franklin - Author, Historian

Cornelius Henderson - President, Gammon Theological Seminary

Ernest Hollway - President, Langston University

Freeman A Hrabowski, III - President, University of Maryland 

Fredrick Humphries - President, Florida A&M University

Thomas F. Law - President, St. Paul's College

Joseph T. McMillan, Jr. - President, Huston-Tillotson College

Benjamin Payton - President, Tuskegee University

Henry Ponder - President, Fisk University, NAFEO

Earl Richardson - President, Morgan State University

Walter Washington - President , Alcorn State University

Charles H. Wesely - Historian, President , Central Ohio State College

Cornell West - Professor African-American Studies - Harvard University (pictured below)

Military

Rear Admiral Benjamin Hacker - U.S. Navy Commander

Major General Chief James McCall - Pentagon Budget Office

Commander Winston Scott - NASA Astronaut

Science/Medicine

James Comer - Psychologist

Lasalle Lefall - First African-American President - American Cancer Society

Garrett Morgan - Inventor of the Traffic Signal

Louis Sullivan - President, Morehouse Medical School

Levi Watkins - Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, John Hopkins Hospital

Religious

Bishop John Hurst Adams - President of the Congress of Black Churches

Harold Davis - President, American Baptist Churches

T.J. Jemison - President of the National Baptist Convention, USA Inc.

E. Edward Jones - President of the National Baptist Convention, America

Wyatt Tee Walker - Executive Assistant of M.L. King Jr. in Southern Christian Leadership Conference