AHEPA Talk: Recent Episodes
Demetrios Kirkiles
The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) is a fraternal organization founded on July 26, 1922, in Atlanta, Georgia. AHEPA was founded to fight for civil rights and against discrimination, bigotry, and hatred felt at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan. It is the largest and oldest grassroots association of American citizens of Greek heritage and Philhellenes with more than 400 chapters across the United States, Canada, and Europe.
The mission statement of the Order of AHEPA Family is to promote Hellenism, Education, Philanthropy, Civic Responsibility, Family and Individual Excellence. AHEPAtalk is dedicated to discussing these topics and those topics of interest along this mission statement.
The City of Flint Michigan had a lead poisoning crisis and AHEPA stepped up to help the children.
The Day Greece said "NO" to tyranny. How saying No to an ultimatum wins the first defeat of an Axis power during World War II. It is an example for today in our time.
The story of the Greek Battalion. The heroic US Military Battalion from WWII that fought in the European theater behind enemy lines in occupied Greece.
A brief history of the first Greeks in the New World. How Greeks settled in North America in 1768 in the then British territory of Florida.