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The World Policy Council of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity is a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank established in 1996 at Howard University to expand the fraternity's involvement in politics and social and current policy to encompass important global and world issues. They describe their mission as to “address issues of concern to our brotherhood, our communities, our Nation, and the world.” Among the Council’s nine Board of Directors are Senator Edward Brooke, Ambassador Horace Dawson, and Congressmen Charles Rangel and Ron Dellums. The Council's directors also include other ambassadors, theologians, presidents of colleges and foundations, and journalists. The Council communicates its position through white papers which are disseminated to policymakers, politicians, scholars, journalist, and fraternity chapters. Since its founding the Council has offered an informed opinion on topics such as the AIDS crisis, global warming, Middle East conflict, Nigerian politics and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision of a ''World House''. ==Historical context== (詳細はorganization that is the first established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906 on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the fraternity utilizes motifs and artifacts from Ancient Egypt to represent the organization and preserves its archives at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Black sponsored Greek letter organization )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Preservation of Alpha Phi Alpha History )〕 The leadership of Alpha Phi Alpha recognized early on the need to correct the educational, economic, political, and social injustices faced by African-Americans and the world community and began its continuing commitment of providing scholarships for needy students and initiating various other charitable and service projects. Alpha Phi Alpha has provided leadership and service during the Great Depression, World Wars, Civil Rights Movements, and addresses social issues such as apartheid, AIDS, urban housing, and other economic, cultural, and political issues affecting people of color. The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial is a program of Alpha Phi Alpha and the fraternity jointly leads philanthropic programming initiatives with March of Dimes, Head Start, Boy Scouts of America and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.〔See, e.g., ''Alpha Phi Alpha''〕 Alpha men such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Jesse Owens, Duke Ellington, Thurgood Marshall, Andrew Young, and Martin Luther King, Jr. are among the litany of fraternity members who have dedicated their lives to the fraternity's principles of "scholarship, manly deeds, and love for all mankind."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Alpha Phi Alpha Men: A Century of Leadership ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Policy Council」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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