Columbus Africentric Early College is a

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. It is a part of

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. The school's previous name, Mohawk Middle School, was changed in the late 1990s, to allow the school not only separation from its original status, but also to expand it into a large school. Africentric was moved into a newly built building near the

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in 2016. The first organization that was started at Africentric was the Nubian Step Team. It was founded February 8, 1999 by Mama Eddings of

Alpha Kappa Alpha Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. () is the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at the historically black Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of sixteen stud ...

sorority, Baba Hatton of

Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. () is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved int ...

fraternity, and Baba Owens of

Phi Beta Sigma Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. () is a historically African American fraternity. It was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students with nine other Howard students as char ...

fraternity.

Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

*Girls

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- 2007, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2023

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District Website
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Ohio High School Athletic Association State Championships

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