They might be few, but they are mighty. At Yale, two students are keeping their Divine Nine organizations alive as the only members of their fraternities on campus, per a wide-ranging feature by Yale Daily News's Olivia Cyrus. Alejandro Rojas is the only member of the Zeta chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., while Keith Pemberton is the only member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.

Both young men continue the legacy of the men who came before them, not just from a fraternity standpoint but a familial one as well. Rojas’ grandfather was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, while Pemberton’s father joined Omega Psi Phi in the spring of 1996. Although he is a legacy, Rojas did not have a lot of knowledge of the Divine Nine as someone who comes from both African American and Mexican American

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