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"Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated" (ΩΨΦ) was founded on Friday, November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C. by three undergraduate students and one faculty advisor. At the time, the founders of Omega Psi Phi were Howard University juniors Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Kennith Coleman. The first faculty advisor was Dr. Ernest Everett Just, who early on was accorded the status of founder by the three undergraduates. Each of the founders had distinguished careers in their chosen fields: Bishop Edgar Love,who became a bishop of the United Methodist Church; Dr. Oscar Cooper, who was a prominent physician who practiced in Philadelphia over 50 years; Professor Frank Coleman,who was the chairman of the Department of Physics at Howard University for many years; and Dr. Ernest E. Just,who was a world-renowned biologist.The fraternity is the first black national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college.

From its inception, the fraternity has worked to build a strong and effective force of men dedicated to its Cardinal Principles of manhood, scholarship, perseverance, uplift, and capable of giving expression to the hopes and aspirations of an unfree people in the land of the free. In 1927, at the urging of fraternity member Carter G. Woodson, the fraternity made National Negro Achievement Week an annual observance, and it continues today as Black History Month.

Since 1945, the fraternity has undertaken a National Social Action Program to meet the needs of African Americans in the areas of health, housing, civil rights, and education. Omega Psi Phi has been a patron of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) since 1955, provides an annual gift of $50,000 to the UNCF, and is a National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) member.