History Kappa Phi Iota Sorority, Incorporated is the first historically black sorority with a strong literary focus.  It started as the dream of an undergraduate at the Newark Campus of Rutgers University by the name of Jamilah Adkins.  She began to materialize this dream on January 22, 1997.  She went to a group of friends with her idea of a sorority based on community service and the appreciation of literature.  The idea was well received but very little action was taken until the summer of 1998.  Jamilah Adkins, her sister Kamirah and a family friend named Alycia Banks met and began to make plans to further the growth of the organization.  They were soon joined by Cassandra Banks and Lola Pendleton Adkins.  The wheels were in motion for an organization that would forever change the face of organized sisterhood.  The Sorority was Incorporated on March 31, 1999.  The rest, as they say, is history.