Singer Ledisi who is set to portray Mahalia Jackson in ‘Remember Me,’ has been inducted into Delta Sigma Theta Sorority as an honorary member.
God did a thing…. LEGACY! I always wanted to be a Delta Woman like my Grandma Lorraine and my big sister Shannon @absolutelyshay ! @dstinc1913 I hope to make my Sorors of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated proud. I’m still working on my form. I’ll get it!! The tears …my line sisters…Whew! Thank you to everyone who lifted me today
She joins Michelle J. Howard (U.S. Navy’s first woman to become a four-star admiral), Abby Phillip (CNN’s senior political correspondent and anchor), Joy-Ann Reid(host of MSNBC’s The Reidout), Ambassador Shabazz (diplomat and eldest daughter of Malcolm X) and Collette V. Smith (NFL’s first Black woman coach), who were all inducted at the sorority’s 55th national convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
The singer also recently shared a new pic of herself in costume for the Mahalia Jackson biopic for which she is set to star alongside Columbus Short.
