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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
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The Two Sister Study is Almost There!

Learn more
about the new
Early Life
Exposures Study

Sister Study Spotlights

Logo and link to Army of Women's Spotlight

Supporting Organizations:
Love/Avon Army of Women

 

Video still of EMSI examiner with sisters Cruz and Olivia
Watch the
Sister Study Video

 

Photo and link to Sally-Ann, Dorothy and Robin Roberts's Sister Story Spotlight
Sisters:
Sally-Ann, Dorothy, and Robin Roberts


Photo link to Janice Phillip's volunteer spotlight
Volunteers:
Janice Phillips

Logo and link to Sisters Network, Inc Spotlight

Partner Organizations:
Sisters Network® Inc.

 

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Sister Stories

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                            Link to the Spanish version of the web site

 

African Methodist
Episcopal Church

Photo of Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Presiding Prelate, Thirteenth Episcopal District, African Methodist Episcopal Church.

 

The Sister Study is delighted to spotlight Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie and the Thirteenth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for encouraging African American women to get involved in the effort to find the causes of breast cancer. About 200 churches within the Thirteenth Episcopal District are spreading the word about the Sister Study to women in their congregations and communities, asking them either to join the study or help find other women who are eligible to join.

Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie serves as the 117th elected and consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Her historic election in the year 2000 represents the first time in the over 200-year history of the A.M.E. Church, in which a woman had obtained that level of Episcopal office. In 2004, she again made history becoming the first woman to become the Titular Head of the denomination, as the president of the Council of Bishops, making her the highest-ranking woman in the predominately Black Methodist denominations.

Bishop McKenzie has been honored for her community service, outstanding achievement and being a religious role model by a number of diverse civic, educational, business and governmental leaders.  She is also the National Chaplain for Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. an international public service organization and life member of the NAACP.  She has received honorary doctorates from Howard University, Wilberforce University, Morgan State University and Goucher College.

We salute Bishop McKenzie and the Thirteenth Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for making a difference for future generations of African American women.  Her public endorsement of the Sister Study will undoubtedly move more African Americans to take their place in this important research.

 

 

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