The Great Sphinx I am a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest African-American/Black fraternity in the United States. I joined in the 90s, during the height of Afrocentrism, as an eager freshman in college. I attended Lincoln University, known as the oldest historically Black college or university in the United States. My choice to join Alpha Phi Alpha was influenced by the Afrocentric symbolism the fraternity embraced long before Afrocentrism became a concept. This is ir