Million Dollar Facelift for Historic Brown Chapel AME Church
By E. Ann Clemons, 9th Episcopal District  Historic Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church has received a 1.3-million-dollar grant from the National Park Service-African American Civil Rights Grants Program. The $23,500, cost of the grants submitted was paid by The Brown Chapel AME Church Preservation Society, Foundation. Architect, Richard Hudgens, led the Church’s examination and study along with structural and electrical engineers. Mr. Hudgens compiled and submitted plans for structural plans for structural restoration and repairs of Brown Chapel to the National Park Service for review and permission to proceed with the project.
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The Closet
Ms. Sabrina Christian, 2nd Episcopal District
The “closet” has a lot of negative connotations. It is where we hide aspects of our lives that we feel are too shameful or disgusting to disclose. The closet houses those things about ourselves that we want to conceal from the world. I have been hiding in my closet for over a decade. My closet holds my anxieties about the ravages of vitiligo. I remember that spring day in 2004 when I noticed that first tiny spot of discoloration on my right hand between the middle and ring fingers. I remember the fear that spread! I dreaded the inevitable progression of the disease; it has progressed.
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St. John AME Church, Huntsville Celebrates Historic Graduate Dr. Kelsey Williams
 Dr. Kelsey Wilson is a proud native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She is the daughter of Vonda James and Charles Wilson. Dr. Wilson is also a Licentiate in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Kelsey Wilson journeyed to Fargo, North Dakota in 2018 to work on her Doctor of Philosophy in Counselor Education and Supervision at North Dakota State University (NDSU). She reached her goal, which was to finish in 3 years. She learned counseling at an advance level to integrate faith in mental health. She further found a love of teaching at the graduate level and had the honor to work in a church counseling center as a clinical intern.
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Home Depot Arrives at the Wilberforce Campus 
Thursday, July 29th from 8 am to mid-afternoon, students at Wilberforce University will assist Home Depot volunteers in fulfilling the first phase of the home improvement company's Retool Your School pledge.In April of this year, the university received a pledged $20,000 campus uplift, thanks to votes sent to the Home Depot Retool Your School campaign. Wilberforce came in 7th place in Cluster 3. The top ten schools in each of the 3 clusters were awarded grant money ranging from $20,000 to $75,000. Read More Here |
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Rich Authentic Worship (RAW 2021): A Major Success  Outreach is the main focus of Chapel of Christ Our Redeemer AME Church Young People and Children's Division (COCOR YPD) in the Jamaica Conference of the Sixteenth District (Bishop Marvin C. Zanders II) under the leadership of pastor, Rev. Florance M. McElroy. Clothes drives, food drives, tutoring sessions, community feedings and performing arts pop up sessions; the work is all divine. The YPD continue making their mark, giving back to the community. They started the #spreadlove campaign in February 2020 in the middle of a pandemic. The crisis only made them more passionate about serving and giving. When asked why they focus mostly on outreach, "it's just what we do and we love to help others", Kayla Kate Morrison (COCOR YPD treasurer). Read More Here |
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Just For a Moment: And Are We Yet Alive?
Lic. Tricia I. Thomas, Contributing Writer  Just for a moment, I would like for you to ponder with me the question: Are we yet alive? Let us consider the earth around us: The cool breeze that gently persuades the grass to dance; The waters that ebb and flow; The sun that shines ever so brilliantly, providing, not only light, but hope with the dawning of each new day. As the hymn writer, Carl Boberg in 1885 wrote, “When I, in awesome wonder, consider all…Thy hands have made,” I am reminded that it is only by the grace of God that I am living to see another day. My sisters and brothers, today, we stand together in the middle of 2021, gazing at what appears to be the light at the end of the tunnel of this global pandemic that has attempted to turn our lives upside down. Read More Here |
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Tweaking Our Narratives Towards Hope and Health
Self-Care: Philippians 4:4-9
Rev. Dr. Versey A Williams, Contributing Writer 
The lifting of COVID restrictions, allowed my family to vacation and actually touch each other. To my knowledge, my children, grands, cousins and distant relatives have received their COVID vaccines. I received the Moderna Vaccine. It was my shout out to Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, the viral immunologist who was at the forefront of the development of the vaccine. We learned physical distance is no barrier to our values, assumptions and hopes for a better future or a bleak outcome – as we thought. We were in same house, different rooms and on individual cellphones. There was a story breaking out of Boston MA about several black man who were part of the Rise of the Moors culture.
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General Officers Council Elects New Leadership
On September 6, 2021, the General Officers Council elected new leadership for the 2021-2024 term.
President: Dr. Teresa Fry Brown, Executive Director of Research and Scholarship
Secretary: Dr. Marcellus A. Norris, Executive Director of Church Growth and Development
Treasurer: Mr. John Thomas III, Editor, The Christian Recorder
Congratulations and appreciation are extended to the outgoing leadership team: Dr Jeffery B. Cooper, Rev. Garland Pierce and Dr. George Flowers. |
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 | | Please watch the replay of our roundtable TCR Dialogue on the book "White Too Long" by Dr. Robert P. Jones |
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Reengaging the Vision of Black Freedom During Black August 2021
By Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith
The World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance was held in Durban, South Africa, from August 31 to September 7, 2001. The vision of the conference was global engagement in a broad anti-racism agenda for the first time in the post-apartheid era. The conference's objectives were (1) to produce a declaration that recognized the damage caused by past expressions of racism and that reflected a new global awareness of modern forms of racism and xenophobia, (2) to agree on a strong practical program of action, and (3) to forge an alliance between governments and civil society that would carry the fight against racism forward.
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The 32nd Annual NGO Conference - Virtual
Shawn M. Ross, WMS-AMEC NGO Commissioner and UN Representative
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