Over the weekend, gospel legend Yolanda Adams became a brand new honorary member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. Along with diplomat Teta V. Banks, astronaut Jeanette J. Epps, activist Chantél Harris, and author Margo Lee Shetterly, the vocalist was inducted at the sorority’s biennial conference in Houston, Texas which also happens to be her hometown.
Sister Yolanda was so elated to share the news that after the ceremony, she posted on Instagram that this was the secret she had been keeping all along.
Previous AKA honorary membership inductees include Jada Pinkett-Smith, Maya Angelou, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Iyanla Vanzant, Ella Fitzgerald, Alicia Keys, Gladys Knight, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, C. Delores Tucker, Suzanne de Passe, Mae Jemison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Zina Garrison and C. Vivian Stringer.