Hazing in Black Fraternities: The Real Story | deep dive$

The entire process, from start to finish.

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Chapters

0:00 intro
4:15 the divine nine
7:47 recruitment
11:14 interest meeting
16:48 pre-pledging
19:43 pledging
33:55 hell week
38:47 probate
46:46 consequences
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Sources

OMEGA PSI PHI

Caleb Wilson:
https://www.theroot.com/omega-psi-phi-breaks-silence-after-hbcu-scholar-dies-af-1851767050
https://www.wafb.com/2025/03/01/family-breaks-silence-after-death-southern-university-student/
https://www.wafb.com/2025/03/07/1-custody-connection-with-death-southern-university-student/
https://www.wafb.com/2025/03/04/i-team-sources-su-fraternity-members-lied-about-where-pledges-death-happened/

Robert Brazile:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/republican-and-herald-robert-brazile-haz/17626532/

Nathaniel Swinson: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031506/http://www.law.howard.edu/dictator/media/229/how_56_2.pdf

Vann Watts: https://archive.org/details/wrongsofpassagef0000nuwe/page/n1/mode/2up?q=vann+watts

Joseph T. Green:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140403173653/http://www.crimelibrary.com/photogallery/hazed-and-accused.html?curPhoto=21

Harold Thomas: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031506/http://www.law.howard.edu/dictator/media/229/how_56_2.pdf

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ALPHA PHI ALPHA

Joel Harris: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031506/http://www.law.howard.edu/dictator/media/229/how_56_2.pdf

Gregory R. Batipps:

HAZING SUSPECTED IN U.VA STUDENT’S DEATH

Tyler Hilliard:
https://abc7.com/tyler-hilliard-uc-regents-lawsuit-hazing-death-riverside/13784935/
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KAPPA ALPHA PSI

Michael Davis:
https://apnews.com/general-news-fc68d3604a4d431385ded7730bc090f5

Marlon Jackson Jr.:
https://6abc.com/delaware-state-university-hazing-accident-marlon-jackson/5158354/
https://www.fox29.com/news/delaware-state-university-student-dies-following-alleged-hazing-incident-that-ended-in-violent-crash
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ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA

Kristin High & Kenitha Saafir:
https://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/09/23/sorority.death/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-sep-15-me-banks15-story.html

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PHI BETA SIGMA

Donnie Wade:
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/parents-sue-over-prairie-view-student-s-death-1738723.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20120415012007/https://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20100420-Prairie-View-AandM-disbands-Phi-Beta-1425.ece

Unknown Victim (Survived): https://www.12onyourside.com/story/10246153/student-injured-eight-men-face-charges/

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DELTA SIGMA THETA

Victoria Carter & Briana Latrice Gather: https://web.archive.org/web/20121109232142/https://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/10/02/3573409/suit-says-sorority-hazing-led.html

ZETA PHI BETA

Chantel Conley (Survived): https://wamu.org/story/11/03/03/seven_charged_in_sorority_hazing/
https://casetext.com/case/williams-v-wendler-5

Probation period ends for Zeta Phi Beta

IOTA PHI THETA

https://www.lincoln.edu/student-life/dean-students/lincoln-university-hazing-incident-report.html

SIGMA GAMMA RHO

https://www.bgsu.edu/news/online-media-newsroom/2022/03/bgsu-statement-regarding-the-permanent-expulsion-of-sigma-gamma-rho-sorority.html

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/09/08/brutal-haze
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Official at Lincoln University allegedly watched hazing: https://www.chronicle.com/article/lincoln-u-investigates-accusation-that-administrator-was-present-at-hazings/