Stacie NC Grant is International President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, a sorority founded in 1920 at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and was installed as its 26th International President on July 24, 2022. She previously held sorority offices including International Third Anti-Basileus and served two terms as president of the Phi Zeta Zeta Chapter in Queens, New York. She founded C&G Enterprises Unlimited, LLC, a business-services firm offering meeting facilitation and professional development training among other services, and is CEO of Destiny Designers University.
Role at the time: International President of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, in a joint statement of women-led organizations published by Higher Heights for America
Condemned
Statement summary
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority international president Stacie Grant said the sorority works side by side with the Black women leaders being attacked to promote social, health and economic justice, and described dehumanizing rhetoric as an explicit attempt to discredit "all of us," not political debate.
“We work side by side to promote social, health, and economic justice with the Black women leaders being viciously attacked. Dehumanizing rhetoric is not political debate—it is an explicit attempt to discredit all of us.”
Read the official statement (opens in a new tab)WOMEN-LED ORGANIZATIONS STAND UNITED AGAINST RACIST AND MISOGYNISTIC ATTACKS ON BLACK WOMEN LEADERSSection "Organization and Leadership Statements of Support", statements from individual leaders
Why we used this label
The case's reference point is Laura Loomer's remarks about Angie Nixon and other Black women in politics. Grant says the sorority works with the Black women leaders being viciously attacked and calls dehumanizing rhetoric an explicit attempt to discredit "all of us," so we labeled it Condemned.
Laura Loomer used “ghetto” and a gendered slur for Angie Nixon and four other Black women, then defended the wording as describing Nixon’s conduct, race, and ideology. Critics across parties called the remarks racist, sexist, degrading, offensive, or vile.
