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Please take a moment to see the latest stories from Birmingham View Magazine Online. We want to remind you about these and other Empowerment Week events going on this weekend.
Bill Cosby Summit Today
Entertainer Bill Cosby, chair of Birmingham's 50th Anniversary of the 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights Movement Committtee will host his own summit with education and business leaders Saturday, Sept. 14, as part of Empowerment Week's commemoration events.
The event is free and open to the public.
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Project1Voice Honors the Four Little Girls in One Play, Played Nationwide
1Voice/1Play /1Day, theaters around the country are putting on a play honoring the four girls killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing 50 years ago.
 The main Birmingham performance of Christina Hamm's "Four Little Girls: Birmingham 1963," is produced by ArtPlay – the Alys Stephens Center's home for education and outreach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The play is directed by Alicia Johnson-Williams and the youth ensemble of her Make It Happen Theatre Company. The performance will take place in the Alys Stephens Center's Jemison Concert Hall, 1200 10th Ave. South Sirote Theatre Sunday, Sept. 15, at 2 p.m.
Before the performance, at 12:30 p.m., U.S. Attorney Eric Holder and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D., will hold a discussion about the bombing with UAB President Ray L. Watts. After a 20-minute intermission, the ASC and ArtPlay will present the staged reading at 2 p.m. in the Alys Stephens Center's Jemison Hall.
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Guiding Light Pastor Offers Healing to Bomb Survivors
 The pastor of Guiding Light Church is hosting several events during Empowerment Week to honor those not kiled in the Sixteenth Street Church bombing 50 years ago this Sunday because he and other survivors also carry the emotional scars of that traumatic day.
Bishop Jim Lowe said at least 20 of the church bombing survivors will take part in a 6 p.m. panel discussion on Saturday, Sept. 14 at the church to discuss what took place on Sept. 15, 1963, the day that turned public sentiment against racial hatred, but still affects those who survived the bombing on that fateful day. Predominantly White churches will also take part in special prayer and worship service after the panel discussion.
On Sunday, Sept. 15 -- the 50th anniversary of the church bombing -- Lowe said the participating churches will honor the survivors in a special 9 a.m. Jubilee Service that he calls "An Explosion of Love." Church members will place hands on the survivors and pray for their emotional healing. The service will be followed with the releasing of four doves, in honor of the four girls killed in the blast, and other doves representing the survivors.
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4 Little Girls Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser
 The 4 Little Girls Memorial Fund, which has provided college scholarships for three decades in memory of the four young girls killed in the heinous bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on September 15th, 1963, will host a 50-Year Commemorative Tribute and Fundraiser Saturday, September 14, 2013, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.
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"Four Spirits" Statue Honoring the Four Girls To Be Unveiled Today
The speaker will be Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, President Emeritus and co-founder with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
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