List of Kappa Alpha Psi brothers
Name Original chapter Notability
Ralph Abernathy Beta Zeta Civil rights leader ; former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC )
Jamal Harrison Bryant Baltimore ( MD ) Alumni Pastor of Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore , Maryland ; has appeared on BET 's Meet the Faith , CNN , C-SPAN , and Politically Incorrect ; served as a panelist on the national town hall meetings entitled The State of Black America and The State of the Black Church
Calvin O. Butts Pi Pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem , New York ; President of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury ; Chairman and founder of the Abyssinian Development Corporation , an engine for $ 500 million in housing and commercial development in Harlem
Eddie L. Long Alpha Kappa Pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church
Leon Sullivan Tau Late Baptist minister ; civil rights leader and social activist ; pastor emeritus of Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ; 29th Laurel Wreath laureate ;
Gardner C. Taylor Alpha Omega Late Pastor Emeritus of the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn , NY ; awarded the 2000 Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton
The following is a list of notable members of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. (commonly referred to as Kappas or Nupes). These members are recognized as leaders in the arts, athletics, business, civil rights, education, government, and science. Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University in 1911. The fraternity has more than 105,000 members with 721 undergraduate and alumni chapters in every state of the United States, and international chapters in the United Kingdom, Germany, Korea, Japan, the Caribbean, Saint Thomas, Saint Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands and South Africa.