Category: Metro Written by Rebecca Nuttall - Courier Staff Writer

Bishop Eugene M. Thorpe passed away Aug. 7 after several years of health issues, his age was not given by the family. He was the founder of the North Side Institutional COGIC.

“He passed of natural causes, quietly with his family at his side,” said James Vaughn, husband of Bishop Thorpe’s daughter, Lisa Thorpe-Vaughn.

BISHOP EUGENE THORPE

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Category: Metro Written by Christian Morrow - Courier Staff Writer

With Stephen Thomas Ph.D, and his top staffers having departed the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh for Maryland more than two months ago, one of the center’s key community-based initiatives, the Healthy Black Families project at the Kingsley Association is being discontinued.

Not only does its loss leave a $130,000 void in the Kingsley’s budget, it also leaves a health service void in the heart of several Black communities.

MALIK BANKSTON

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Category: Metro

A title and position may mean a lot to some, but to Rev. Dr. Ronald E. Peters, a prestigious appointment merely gives him the right to make challenging inroads on a larger scale; thereby impacting a world where God is always in control. The man who leaves an indelible mark on Pittsburgh’s theological community is moving his knowledge and expertise to the city of Atlanta as the eighth president of The Interdenominational Theological Center.

Since 1958, the ITC has been training men and women for Christian leadership and service, both within the church and the surrounding global community. Located adjacent to the Atlanta University complex, the ecumenical consortium encompasses six various denominational seminaries, including the Baptist, United Methodist, African Methodist Episcopal, Christian Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian USA and the Church of God in Christ. The ITC, providing theological education, also includes a Lutheran center and is the country’s largest joint cooperative of African-Americans in higher education.

REV. RON PETERS

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Category: Entertainment Written by Ashley N. Johnson

“Black Horizons,” one of the longest national running public affairs television talk shows that addressed issues of interest and relevance to the African-American community, is scheduled to be replaced this fall after more than 40 years. The show that has, like the WQED-Multimedia station’s motto states “changes lives,” may no longer do that after Nov. 1, when it is replaced with new programming that will focus on not just African-Americans but the growing number of ethnicities in the region.

The station will have a whole new change in its weekly programming and it’s being viewed as an expansion that was carefully explored.

CHRIS MOORE, RALPH PROCTOR, DARRYL FORD WILLIAMS, MINETTE SEATE

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