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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

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Dorothy Bracy Alston is an author, freelance writer, photo journalist, adjunct English professor, consultant, community activist, philanthropist, and ministry servant. A born teacher, avid reader, writer, researcher, public speaker, prayer strategist, and minister with a love for learning. Her desire to see individuals and organizations succeed in their various projects and endeavors led her to form CISBA Communication Services.

CISBA Associates, along with CISBA Communication Services (its affiliate) helps individuals, faithbased, charitable, educational, along with small and emerging businesses with consulting and communication services to become successful in their projects and business ventures.

Faithbased leaders, ministers, and philanthropist are servants at heart. They serve the public in various ways. Dorothy is particularly interested in assisting these leaders prepare their plethora of inspirational messages for publication.

Dorothy has been a freelance writer for the Millington Star and the New Tri-State Defender for several years. As a freelance writer and journalist, Dorothy has covered major educational, religious, political, social and philanthropic events in the Memphis community.

Several of her articles have appeared both locally and on a national platform. Two of her favorite and most memorable journalistic assignments were to cover the iconic movie premier about the "Red Tails," and shortly thereafter to cover the memorial services of one of the last Red Tail survivors,
Lt. Luke Weathers.


Dorothy's article on Lt. Luke Weather's contribution to aviation was shared nationally and internationally and appeared on the website of (former) United States Congressman Charles Rangel (D/NY).

http://rangel.house.gov/news/articles/2012/01/memphis-born-red-tails-airman-buried-with-honors.shtml


As a journalist Dorothy contirbuted in announcing the selection of the Catholic's most beloved pope, Pope Francis. A quote from her article stated; “Habemus papam!” Latin for, “We have a new pope!” It was a history making moment as a crowd of tens of thousands of Catholics greeted their first non-European Jesuit pope, Wednesday (March 13) at the square in Vatican City. The 76-year-old Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now known as Pope Francis I, from Buenos Aires, Argentina begins with an impressive legacy.

In a remarkably fast conclave, 115 cardinals made the decision to select the Catholic Church’s first pope from the Americas, the first from outside Europe, and the first Jesuit."

CISBA Communication Services allowed Dorothy to expand her writing and communication services into other venues and markets, as well as in academia, as an adjunct English professor.

CISBA Communication Services, as a market place ministry, is the publishing and marketing arm of CISBA Associates and its other ministry affiliates.

CISBA (CCS) prepares and publishes books and workbooks, develops and writes curriculums, articles, newsletters, presentations, and other necessary print resources needed to provide helpful information and educational resources to the body of Christ and beyond. These resources are kingdom based and will enable the partaker to learn and practice various kingdom strategies that will assist them in growing into the fullness of Christ and becoming knowledgeable of how to overcome our chief enemy-Satan.

For information on services provided by CISBA Communication Services, contact Dorothy at CisbaAssociates@gmail.com.




Sunday, January 15, 2017

Dorothy Bracy Alston Enjoys Her Work as Freelance Writer and Journalist

As a freelance writer, photo journalist, and aurhor, it has afforded Dorothy Bracy Alston various opportunities to meet, interview and have photo opts with groundbreaking and history making African Ameircan leaders.

Dorothy was particularly honored to have a 90-minute exclusive interview with a National Freedom Awards recipient, Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr., who was the late civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s chief lieutenant and field administrator. Lafayette was the 2012 recipient of this prestigious award, given annually by the National Civil Rights Museum, in Memphis.

As a celebrated chief lieutenant of Dr. King during the civil rights movement, Lafayette is currently a Distinguished-Senior-Scholar-in-Residence at Emory University's Candor School of Theology, in Atlanta, GA.

"I'm still in the movement. I have not retired. I'm still working very hard every day," said Lafayette, jokingly adding that, "I live on Delta Airlines."

"At Emory, I teach a graduate level course on the life and work of Martin Luther King, and in the spring, I teach a course on lessons that we've learned in the movement. It analyzes the different campaigns, and we go into the organizational structure and the strategy of what we learned in the movement," said Lafayette.

In addition to interviewing Dr. Lafayette, whose wisdom was exhilirating, I was again excited when given the opportunity to interview the first African American, U. S, Secretary of Education, Dr. Rod Paige. As an educator and English instructor, I was beyond excited.
Exceprts from Dorothy's published New Tri-State Defender Newspaper article included:

"Noted African American leader, Dr. Rod Paige, who along with President Obama, is a man of many firsts, was in town Saturday, April 20, as keynote speaker for Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Beta Epsilon Chapter’s Second Annual Educational Advancement Foundation Scholarship Breakfast, hosted by Middle Baptist Church, Dr. Lester Baskins.

"Dr. Paige was the seventh United States Secretary of Education, the first African American and the first superintendent of schools to serve in this capacity. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Paige served from 2001 – 2005.

Paige’s commitment to education began in rural Mississippi, where he was born and raised. The oldest of four siblings; one of which is Dr. Raygene Paige, current EAF chair of this annual event. Their father was a principal and their mother a librarian. Paige says he and his siblings had no choice in whether or not they were going to college.

“I recall being asked by an elementary school student; ‘Why did you decide to go to college?’ The reason I decided to go to college is because I enjoyed breathing,” stated Paige to this youngster.

Paige admits, “That question never crossed my mind on whether or not I was going to college, because if I made the decision, I would have been out swimming or playing ball or something. We need to get back to making decisions for our children and get back there fast.”

Paige believes, “There’s no other way to advance us quicker to a place, other than education. Our problem is we’ve let the children be the adult. In my generation, our parents made the decisions for us. We didn’t make the decisions for ourselves.”

Dorothy has had many other wonderful and notable journalistic opportunities. She loves writing and continues to freelance as a journalist, but is currently working on her personal writing career.

Dorothy is the author of "How to Whup the Devil™ - A Spiritual Weapons Guide, available both in print, and as an eBook on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/How-Whup-Devil-Spiritual-Weapons-ebook/dp/B01KNNZKKI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1476906597&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+whup+the+devil.

Comming soon: "How to Whup the Devil™ Workbook. It will be available in both print and as an eBook.

For information, contact Dorothy at CisbaAssociates@gmail.com.

Dorothy Bracy Alston

Dorothy Bracy Alston
Communications and Writing Consultant