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NHSB IS A LOCAL COUNSELING AGENCY THAT GIVES ADVICE ON:
• AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES
• FIRST TIME BUYERS
• PURCHASING OR RENTING A HOME
• CREDIT COUNSELING AND DISPUTES
• BUDGET MANAGEMENT
• FORECLOSURE PREVENTION
NHSB OFFERS COMPREHENSIVE COUNSELING SERVICES IN THE AREAS OF HOME BUYER PREPARATION AND FORECLOSURE PREVENTION. WHILE THE ECONOMY HAS SHOWN SIGNIFICANT SIGNS OF RECOVERY WE RECOGNIZE SOME HOMEOWNERS ARE STILL STRUGGLING WITH THEIR MORTGAGE PAYMENT.
NHSB WANTS TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL CONSUMERS ARE AWARE THAT FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE HARDEST HIT ALABAMA PROGRAMS ADMINISTERED BY THE ALABAMA HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY. THESE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO HOMEOWNERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED JOB LOSS OR OTHER UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MAY HAVE CREATED DELINQUENCIES. NHSB IS WELL-VERSED IN ALL AREAS OF FORECLOSURE MITIGATION AND CAN BE A GREAT RESOURCE AS IT RELATES TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THESE FUNDS. NHSB STANDS READY TO HELP ALL POTENTIAL AND EXISTING HOMEOWNERS WITH ANY PURCHASE OR FORECLOSURE COUNSELING NEED.
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF BIRMINGHAM
601 – 19TH STREET, NORTH
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35203
(205) 328-4292
CONTACT: PAM WHITT
Left to right: Top Row: Phyllis and JaNaya Johnson,
Dr. Anjanetta Foster' Aeryn Morrison-Alexander, LaToya and Iris Perkins, Darren McMeans, Natasha Garrett, Michele Littlepage, Makaila Gooden, Sydney and Porsche Urquhart, Corynn Allen and Connie Taylor, Artelia and "Q" White
Second row: Sitting: l-r: Allysa Morrison-Alexander, Kendlyn Spencer, Shecoria Wright, Nyla Garrett, Jordan Littlepage, Kanya White, Ronald McDonald, Jazmine and Jade' Hinton, Tatiyonna Cohill Jesurun White
Bottom row: sitting; l-r; Ella Spencer, Janise Littlepage, Kaya King
Not pictured: Daja and Andrea Virdell, Darius Wilson. Timia Simmons, Annysha Jackson, Brittany Jackson, Sandra Green, Tracy Shepherd, Jennifer Howard
Left to right: Top Row: Phyllis and JaNaya Johnson, Dr. Anjanetta Foster’ Aeryn Morrison-Alexander, LaToya and Iris Perkins, Darren McMeans, Natasha Garrett, Michele Littlepage, Makaila Gooden, Sydney and Porsche Urquhart, Corynn Allen and Connie Taylor, Artelia and “Q” White Second row: Sitting: l-r: Allysa Morrison-Alexander, Kendlyn Spencer, Shecoria Wright, Nyla Garrett, Jordan Littlepage, Kanya White, Ronald McDonald, Jazmine and Jade’ Hinton, Tatiyonna Cohill Jesurun White Bottom row: sitting; l-r; Ella Spencer, Janise Littlepage, Kaya King Not pictured: Daja and Andrea Virdell, Darius Wilson. Timia Simmons, Annysha Jackson, Brittany Jackson, Sandra Green, Tracy Shepherd, Jennifer Howard
On Sunday, September 22, Girl Scout Troop 766, Ensley East area, parents, family and friends had their first service project of the Girl Scout year. The girls prepared breakfast for dinner at the Ronald McDonald House. Their menu included grits, pancakes, hash browns, eggs, both with cheese and without cheese, french toast, sausage, bacon, biscuits, toast, hot cocoa, and chocolate milk. The parents were having as much fun as the girls. The food was paid for by the girls, parents and troop. They love cooking at Ronald McDonald House. Gloria Yelder and Porsche Urquhart, are the Troop leaders.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. – Mu Psi Lambda Chapter (ΜΨΛ) , presents to you again the Black Affair on Thursday, October 23rd beginning at 7p.m. at the B.O.S.S. Ultra Bar & Lounge at 312 20th St. South downtown Birmingham. Advance tickets are $10. We are supporting breast cancer awareness month during Magic City Classic Week. Music, food, drink specials and door prizes will be available. For ticket information visit http://mupsilambda.com/TheBlackAffair or call 205.999.8917.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. national programs include Go-to-High-School, Go-to-College; A Voteless People is a Hopeless People voter registration initiatives; Project Alpha which educates teen males on teen pregnancy prevention and Brothers’ Keeper program, a service program to help improve the quality of life for Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity brothers, their spouses, and widows who are retired, are elders, have disabilities and are ailing.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ), founded in 1906, is the first Black, Inter-Collegiate Greek-Lettered fraternity founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Its founders are known as the ” Seven Jewels”. Notable members have included Nobel Prize winner Martin Luther King, Jr., Olympian Jesse Owens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young, Singer Lionel Richie, Miles College President, Dr. George French and former Birmingham Mayor, Richard Arrington, Jr. Other prominent local members include local officials, Commissioner George Bowman, Councilor Steven Hoyt and Councilor Jay Roberson.
WACO, Texas – “Marching to Zion: Celebrating and Preserving Black Sacred Music” – Baylor University’s 2014 Pruit Symposium – will bring together leading voices in Black gospel music for conversation, celebration and music on Thursday, Oct. 23, through Saturday, Oct. 25, on the Baylor campus.
Civil rights hero and musician Bernice Johnson Reagon, Ph.D., a founding member of the Freedom Singers; choral master and author James Abbington, Ph.D.; and Dwandalyn Reece, Ph.D., curator of music and performing arts at the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, will be keynote speakers. The event also will feature three Black gospel music concerts open to the public.
“This brings together some of the world’s top experts on Black sacred music,” said Robert F. Darden, associate professor of journalism, public relations and new media in Baylor’s College of Arts & Sciences, and founder of Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project. The project acquires, preserves, records and catalogs at-risk Black gospel music from past decades, when records and tapes were prevalent.
“It has been many years since there has been a national symposium devoted to the music that is the foundational music for all American popular music,” Darden said. “We intentionally set out to ‘cover the waterfront.’ We wanted to have someone speak to every possible facet of gospel music. We have an expert on hip-hop and gospel music, on the depictions of female gospel artists in cinema and TV, we have someone speaking to the use of sacred music in the African-American megachurch tradition, we have an expert on the home of gospel music – Chicago – we have someone speaking to the more recent stars of gospel music, like Andrae Crouch and Walter Hawkins, and we have someone speaking about the intersection of the civil rights movement and protest spirituals and freedom songs.”
From a scholarly perspective, the symposium is “a long overdue outlet for the best new research on America’s greatest original art form,” said Darden, author of “People Get Ready: A New History of Black Gospel Music” and “Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.”
He noted that two representatives from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., will talk about the Smithsonian’s efforts in preservation, including an update on the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture, under construction on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
“There is a direct Waco connection to the NMAAHC,” Darden said. “The gospel music will be provided by Baylor’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project.”
Beyond the scholarly and preservation aspects of Black sacred music, “it’s exciting to share the passion of a lifetime for people who only know about this music from TV and movies,” Darden said. “Nothing compares to the real thing.”
For registration or more information, visit www.baylor.edu/pruit .
Western Hills Mall will be the sight for the final Voter I.D. Drive prior to the November 4, 2014 elections. The National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW)- Central Alabama Chapter, Inc. will be readily available to assist all voters in obtaining the proper I.D. required by Alabama law to vote. The ability to vote is our voice in state and local legislation. The National Coalition of 100 Black Women (NCBW)- Central Alabama Chapter, Inc. is asking all community members who lack proper identification to please visit Western Hills Mall located at 7201 Aaron Aronov Dr, Fairfield, AL 35064. This event will be held November 1, 2014 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Please come out and make sure your vote will count.
Left to right are:
Back row – Srintra Saisarai, Cheryl Hoskins and Reginald Threadgill
Third row – Teresa Defnall, Cindy Jinks and Bobby Miles
Second row – Angelia Bowie, Amy Bogue, Janet Bell, FolaShade Weems
Front row – Eleanor Huffman and Alecia Jackson
Left to right are:
Back row – Srintra Saisarai, Cheryl Hoskins and Reginald Threadgill
Third row – Teresa Defnall, Cindy Jinks and Bobby Miles
Second row – Angelia Bowie, Amy Bogue, Janet Bell, FolaShade Weems
Front row – Eleanor Huffman and Alecia Jackson
In support of Breast Cancer Awareness the Bessemer Tax Assessor’s Office has gone pink. “When Commissioner Brown sent a memo to say that the courthouses would be going pink; that was all we needed to start decorating. And with Halloween right around the corner it gave us a double reason to come up with a plan,” said decorating coordinators, Amy Bogue, Janet Bell, Rickey Davis and Quin Hameen.
The staff worked together to come up with the idea to incorporate the two holidays. So how do you related Breast Cancer Awareness with Halloween…you scare it away! So ghosts, scary jack-o-lanterns and skulls set the tone to “boo” away the disease.
“We wish that it was as easy as that to run breast cancer away. But since we can’t, we wanted to do something to let survivors know that we support them,” said the trio as they continued. “We know that with much prayer and continued research, this disease will be defeated! But in the meantime we wanted to encourage people to stay strong in the fight.”
A second feature is a wall that supports the Susan B. Komen Race. It depicts the start of the marathon and even includes a casualty that falls as she takes off from the starting line of the race. The walls also include starbursts that list the names of family, friends, church members etc., of the staff who are survivors and a special memorial to those who have finished the race of life.
“I had a customer who asked about our decorations and I immediately pointed to our blue ribbon from a contest sponsored by the Bessemer Chamber of Commerce for Christmas decorations,” said assessment clerk Teresa Defnall. “So when I explained to her that we were preparing something for breast cancer, she asked if we could include her sister’s name. Of course we were more than happy to make a spot for her on our wall. We just wanted to do something to make people feel good.”
The Assistant Tax Assessor’s Office is located on the 2nd floor of the Bessemer Courthouse. Andrew Bennett is the elected department head.
The J.S. Abrams staff Volunteers participated in the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama Private Shopping event at Belk on Sunday. Participants were : Principal Brenda Rumley, Counselor Melba Shanks, and teacher Adrienene Evans.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – As a part of its plan to have a healthier campus, Stillman College has announced its first 5K Run/Walk. The event will be held on the Stillman campus on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8 a.m. and will allow for the Stillman administration, faculty, staff, students and community members to participate in an event that will promote and sustain a healthy lifestyle.
Joining Stillman in this effort will be Joshua R.N. Reid, CEO and founder of Operation Driven. Reid is an International Federation of Bodybuilding (IFBB) Professional Athlete, a GNC sponsored professional athlete and an Adidas 2014 Campaign Athlete.
“We are excited about our 5K Run/Walk and are encouraging people of all ages to participate. Joshua is a great addition to our event. We recruited a young athlete so that the students might be able to better identify with him. It is my hope that this activity will grow to become one of our most notable events and will take place for years to come,” said Dr. Marcia Millet, chairperson for the 2014 5K Run/Walk.
All participants are asked to arrive at Stillman’s Birthright Alumni Hall by 7:30 a.m. Registration is complimentary but requires all participants to complete registration and waiver forms. There is no charge to participate in the event. Forms are available on Stillman’s website at www.stillman.edu. Registration will also be available the day of the event. All participants will receive a t-shirt.
In addition to the 5K Run/Walk, Stillman will also host a free health seminar for community members. This event will be held on Friday, Oct. 24 from 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. in the Wynn Center on its campus.
Buffalo Rock, Church’s, McAllister’s Deli, Wagner’s runwalk and the 100 Black Men of Tuscaloosa have joined with Stillman to serve as its inaugural sponsors of the event.
Founded in 1876, Stillman College is a private liberal arts institution committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship and service. Located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama the Historically Black College is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church, USA. Ninety-two percent of Stillman’s stellar faculty holds terminal degrees, giving it a national reputation for academic excellence. It provides outstanding programs in the biological sciences, business administration and teacher education. The Harte Honors College and pre-professional programs in law and medicine provide an elite educational opportunity for students – many of whom are first generation college students. Approximately 80 percent of its students are from Alabama with the overall student population representing 22 states and six foreign countries.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – As October comes to an end and so does National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the Society urges you to join the fight to end breast cancer once and for all. The American Cancer Society invests more in breast cancer research than any other cancer and is doing the most for people with breast cancer today to end the disease tomorrow. While significant progress has been made in the fight against breast cancer, more needs to be done.
With more than 230,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer and more than 40,000 deaths from breast cancer estimated in 2014, breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women in the U.S. other than skin cancer, and second leading cause of death after lung cancer. In Alabama, 3,660 women are expected to be diagnosed with the cancer. Of that number, about 690 will die.
“The American Cancer Society has played a role in nearly every major breast cancer research breakthrough in recent history and we encourage all women to take steps every day to reduce their risk from breast cancer by maintaining a healthy weight, getting regular exercise, and limiting alcohol intake,” said Rhonda Mendez, spokesperson at the American Cancer Society. “Thanks in part to the progress we’re making together, death rates from breast cancer have dropped by 34 percent since the early 1990s. This translates to 203,000 lives saved that would have otherwise been lost to breast cancer.”
The Society helped establish mammography as the standard to find breast cancer early, and recommends that women 40 and older have a yearly mammogram and clinical breast exam. Also, the Society recommends that women ages 20 to 39 receive a clinical breast exam at least once every three years.
Breast cancer is the number one reason people call the American Cancer Society. The Society provides help and support 24 hours a day to anyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis through its round-the-clock call center at 1-800-227-2345 and on the web at www.cancer,org. and is doing the most to help people with breast cancer today while working tirelessly to find cures to end the disease tomorrow.
Here are a few ways to join the Society in the fight to finish breast cancer:
· Get started at cancer.org/fightbreastcancer.
· Register and walk in the Tuscaloosa Making Strides Against Breast Cancer event, one of our nearly 300 events across the U.S. This event will happen November 1st at 9 a.m. at Government Park, 601 23rd Avenue in Tuscaloosa.
· Volunteer to help people with breast cancer in your community. Look Good Feel Better and Reach to Recovery offer free support to all women facing a diagnosis and trying to overcome the emotional and physical side-effects of cancer and subsequent treatment. Volunteers drive patients to treatment in Road to Recovery, a free program that offers assistance by helping patients get to and from lifesaving treatment.
· Take action to help make fighting breast cancer a top national priority at acscan.org/makingstrides.
The American Cancer Society’s nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network℠ (ACS CAN), continues to fight back against breast cancer by working to increase funding for the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) that provides low-income, uninsured and underinsured women access to breast and cervical screening tests. Current funding only enables the program to serve less than one in five eligible women ages 40 to 64 nationwide. ACS CAN encourages anyone touched by this disease to let Congress know that support for the NBCCEDP is important, and that an increase in funding for this program is vital to its continuation. To get involved, or to learn more about this effort, please visit acscan.org/breastcancer.
