Dear Family & Friends,

On Sunday, May 17th @ 5pm at the Historical Hunter Memorial AME Church 4719 Silver Hill Rd Suitland, MD 20746. DC Gospel Artist are uniting together to raise money for medical expenses for our beloved brother/friend John "Bucky" Tillery & his lovely wife Mrs. Katina Tillery, who received a Kidney Transplant on Friday, April 3, 2009.

This Benefit Concert will feature local & National artist from the nations Capitol, Washington DC. We are soliciting donations from family, friends, colleagues & local Ministries that John has either served or ministered at during his music career.

Your presence and donations are so important during this time. If you should have any questions, PLEASE feel free to contact me at (301) 213-7231 or by writing to jlashawn2@aol.com

DONATIONS CAN BE SENT TO:
- The Tillery Donations PO BOX 1509 Lexington Park, MD 20653.

We the Tillery family truly wish to thank you in advance for your love, prayers & support.

- Blessings,

Mrs. jLaShawn Tillery-Williams
(301) 213-7231 mobile
jlashawn2@aol.com
"Praying, Planning & Processing my 2009"

Courtesy of our friends at: http://www.nmac.org/index/future-women-hiv-aids-leaders

Future Women HIV/AIDS Leaders

Michelle Delores Morgan, Founder, Morgan's Leaning Center


Michelle Delores Morgan is the founder of Morgan's Learning Center (MLC), which mobilizes Black American communities and provides resources to AIDS services in Prince George's County (PGC) in Maryland. MLC works with several local organizations with a direct response to PGC’s high HIV/AIDS prevalence and incidence rates. My motto is "Be educated. Be healthy. And LIVE, passionately!" Awareness creation ranges from volunteering to conduct safety meetings at Pepco Holdings, Inc., to organizing an open house in my Southeast, Washington, DC apartment building to promote prevention and education around HIV using gift bags and posters.

I also refer people to PGC HIV testing sites, drug treatment centers and food banks, and provide education and prevention contacts offered to PGC residents. I believe that everyone is unique, and everyone’s perception is different. Reaching all people exactly from where they are concerning awareness in HIV is the key to community mobilization, one community at a time.

My training experience includes the following: Black AIDS Institute Community Mobilization College Student Fellow Graduate 2008; Certified OraQuick Advance Tester, OraSure Technologies, Inc 2008; Trained HIV Names Reporting Tester, Department of Health AIDS Administration 2008; Certified African American HIV Education and Prevention Instructor, American Red Cross Authorized 2007; CPR Trained and Certified 2008. Since 2006, I have volunteered at the Reid Temple AME Church, as the Pathway to Life HIV/AIDS Ministry Secretary and with Pepco Holdings, Inc., as a Diversity Department Participant. I have been with Whitman-Walker Clinic, as a National HIV Testing Day and Food Bank Volunteer, since 2005.

HIV/AIDS in DC in the Washington Informer

View this article by my mentor, Mr. Guy Weston. Very interesting.

Courtesy of: http://www.washingtoninformer.com/wi-web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1014:hiv-is-serious-but-not-critical-it-depends-on-who-you-ask&catid=57:oped&Itemid=154


HIV is serious, but not critical? It depends on who you ask.


Opinion / Editorial
By Guy Weston
Thursday, 16 April 2009 22:53

The District’s recent announcement that DC’s HIV/AIDS rate hit three percent evokes an array of reactions that speak to the complexity of this compelling public health issue. How serious is three percent? To the extent that three percent translates into life-altering impact on 15,120 District residents and their spouses or partners and some family members, I would say “quite serious” as an extended family member and surviving partner of loved ones who died from HIV/AIDS. As a public health professional that analyzes data on local public and private health care expenditures that exceed $100 million each year, I say HIV/AIDS is a “very serious” public policy issue. Considering the fact that the city’s report also tells us that the highest rates of HIV are among residents aged 40-49 and among African American male residents, both at seven percent, I might say “critically serious,” as I am a member of both groups.

While the HIV/AIDS Administration 2007 study on sexual behavior among “men who have sex with men” is pending publication, studies in other cities suggest the rate in this population may be as high as 46 percent for African American men. I have managed to remain HIV negative, having learned my lessons early joining the HIV/AIDS workforce and simultaneously becoming openly gay 23 years ago. Certainly, critical is in the eye of the beholder.

As my personal and professional vantage points may be shared by a significant number of DC residents, (public health professionals, African American men, gay men, and 40-49 year olds), HIV/AIDS is a critical issue for a significant proportion of our population. We should also remember that 3 percent is not unique. HIV/AIDS prevalence among adult residents of Baltimore is also three percent; Newark, New Jersey follows close behind at 2.7 percent, according to published HIV/AIDS statistics and census data.It is also critical to confront findings of the city’s report that frequently escape public discourse.

Heterosexual contact is emerging as the leading mode of HIV transmission in recent years, according to the report’s analysis. The total number of living HIV/AIDS cases among African American women (3902) is already larger than the number of cases identified as African American men who have sex with men (3606).

Moreover, the number of men who have sex with men cases is less than one-third of the total 11,539 living cases recorded among African Americans. Even if the number of cases in men who have sex with men is an undercount, as 976 male cases were reported without risks identified, it is clear that heterosexually transmitted HIV infection is a burgeoning phenomenon.This becomes a sticky subject in the world of HIV funding and politics, where discussions of the dynamics of HIV transmission frequently lead to stigma and blame. The fact that such findings affect resource allocation complicates the discussion further. This is not a new phenomenon. In 1987, the Journal of the National Medical Association published a special analysis of national AIDS data, indicating “nearly half of AIDS cases among Blacks” were heterosexual. At that point in time, cases attributed to heterosexual contact were concentrated in regions of endemic injecting drug use, such as parts of Baltimore and Newark, and injecting drug use was termed HIV’s primary “portal of entry into the heterosexual population.”

It comes as no surprise 20 years later, that heterosexual HIV transmission continues to be highly correlated with injecting and non-injecting substance abuse. That’s not to say that women don’t also become infected from sex with those so called “down low” brothers that sometimes dominate the conversation about women and HIV. On the other hand, we do not have data suggesting that one transmission mode (injecting drug use, sex with a man with a history of injecting drug use, or sex with a bisexual man) is the primary transmission mode to the exclusion of all others. HIV prevention messages that exclude potential transmission modes will not effectively protect our communities from HIV infection.

We do, in fact have a “modern, generalized, and critical” epidemic that affects a number of populations, albeit in different proportions. In addition to the health department’s promotion of early testing and condom availability, we, as affected communities, must deal with the message of statistics frankly, so that persons at risk can feel vulnerable enough to know that the testing and condom messages apply to them.

Guy Weston was Director of Data and Research at the HIV/AIDS Administration from 2001-2003. At present, he is a consultant to local health organizations focusing on Strategic Planning and Program Evaluation.

St. Jude RadioThon: Moses T. Alexander Greene & Friends

Tune into 104.1 FM tomorrow on radio or online at http://www.praise1041.com/

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From: Moses T. Alexander Greene

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 1, 2009

MEDIA-ONLY CONTACT:
The Arden Charis Group
(240) 421-4330


MOSES T. ALEXANDER GREENE TO JOIN BRENT JONES, AARON SPEARS, CHERYL JACKSON, ANTHONY BROWN AND OTHERS FOR PRAISE 104.1 ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL RADIOTHON From 1 to 3, Best-selling author/publicist to join DC's Station for Inspiration as guest host for day of fundraising Artist/Songwriter Mike McCoy to talk about family's personal experience with sickle cell anemia

(Washington, DC) The Arden Charis Group this evening announced that best-selling author/publicist Moses T. Alexander Greene will join WPRS-FM/Praise 104.1 for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Radiothon tomorrow, Thursday, April 2. From 7 am (during the station's broadcast of "The Yolanda Adams Morning Show") through 7 pm, Greene will join a stellar line-up of guest radio announcers for the day which include DC's own Stellar Award Radio Announcer of the Year Cheryl Jackson, Gospel Artist Brent Jones and Praise 104.1 Program Director Matt Anderson. Acclaimed drummer Aaron Spears, songwriter/artist Anthony Brown, National Chair of the National Congress of Black Women Dr. E. Faye Williams, songwriter/artist Mike McCoy and members of various local civic associations, churches and community groups will also be on site handling phones, being interviewed, and taking donations from listeners.

"I am honored to be able to work with PRAISE 104.1 again and humbled by this opportunity to invite our listeners to become partners in hope," said Greene, who visited the St. Jude last fall on behalf of the station. "Although the economy is tight for most these days, because childhood cancers and diseases have not stopped, neither can our giving. I've toured the hospital, met with the physicians and researchers and even had opportunity to meet the patients and their families. Every dollar we raise is hope for a child facing catastrophic circumstances.Tomorrow is about raising hope."

Located in Memphis, Tennesse, St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility. Discoveries made at the hospital have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. With research and patient care under one roof, St. Jude is where some of today's most gifted researchers are able to do science more quickly. The hospital is a place where many doctors send some of their sickest patients and toughest cases. A place where cutting-edge research and revolutionary discoveries happen every day.

Greene and others will focus on asking listeners to become "Partners In Hope;" that is, long term monthly donors for St. Jude who commit to $20 per month. Anthony Brown, who penned Maurette Brown-Clark's hit "It Ain't Over" (currently #6 on Billboard), immediately committed to answering phones for the radiothon when Greene asked if he would volunteer. "Having just months ago lost one of my group members to cancer," said Brown, "this radiothon resonated with me in a strong way and will with anyone who has ever lost anyone of any age to the disease. I was most impressed with St. Jude's 'never send a bill' policy which means families never have to choose between their child and their lives." All patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are treated without regard for their family's ability to pay.

Last year the station raised over $150,000 during the all-day radiothon. This year, station representatives are looking to double that amount. Listeners will be asked to either call 1-800-345-HOPE/1-800-345-4673 or go online at http://www.praise1041.com/ to make their donations. Those outside of the Washington, DC Metropolitan area who would like to listen live to the broadcast can have tune-in online at the same website.

Local artist Mike McCoy, who is a parent of two children with sickle cell anemia, will be interviewed between 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm. McCoy will give listeners an inside look at how the research conducted at St. Jude and the protocols developed there are shared freely with hospitals around the world, including those which have taken care of his children. Legendary broadcaster Cheryl Jackson adds, "I am advocate for children and for institutions which sacrifice to ensure that children receive the necessary health benefits for living a vibrant life. Each pledge could be the one to find the cure for cancer. I had to be here."


Moses T. Alexander GreenePublic Relations / Media ManagementArtistic Direction / Behind-the-Scenes Coverage"Life changes when you grab whatever you love and give it everything." I love my life! In 7 Days you will not recognize my life.

-- Building Quietly,Moses T. Alexander GreenePublic Relations / Media ManagementArtistic Direction / Behind-the-Scenes Coverage"Life changes when you grab whatever you love and give it everything."

I love my life! In 7 Days you will not recognize my life.

The Power of ONE

As I am an avid fan of music, I thought I’d do a piece on “the power of one.” I’ve been hearing it across the Christian/Gospel genres and it reminded me of something I was once told: “Write yourself a letter, forgiving yourself, telling yourself how much you love…yourself! It’ll help you become one whole person.”

We are one, there is power in the unity of one, but before we collectively form a unit of one, we must foundationally start with US, as individuals – you know, the “original unit,” the individual/ONE….you!

There are many things that make up one whole person and forgiveness of self can be a major portion of being whole. Sure, God forgives us, we have forgiven others and others have forgiven us, but have you ever forgiven you? For those things in life you regret, or those things in life you are currently fixing or restoring.

Take some alone time, some time away from others. Be one with yourself and be mentally healthy and whole. One whole unit means one whole individual. Are you whole today?

The Power of ONE