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The recent economic downturn caused many homeowners to lose their homes and left many others struggling to keep up with their mortgages. The government has provided some assistance to help citizens keep their homes as homeownership is considered the bedrock of a stable society and family economic well-being. In 2010, the U.S. Department of the Treasury in partnership with the SC State Housing Finance and Development Authority and the SC Housing Corp., made more than $295 million available to help eligible SC homeowners recover from and avoid serious first mortgage delinquency and foreclosure. The funds, which do not have to be repaid by eligible homeowners, were awarded under the Treasury Department's Hardest Hit Fund program and are being distributed through a program called SC Help. Unfortunately, and surprisingly, much of the $295 million has gone untapped in SC. On the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Charlena B. Johnson of Higher Heights Family Services, LLC, of Georgetown, a SC Help-approved processing agency. Johnson explains the program and how homeowners can apply for assistance.

For more information about SC Help, visit:

http://www.scmortgagehelp.com/

Insight airs on Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

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July is National Family Reunion Month and National Black Family Month. During July and other summer months, many families around the nation have family reunions. Some families have occasional reunions, some annual reunions. Also, some families have small informal gatherings while others have large elaborate gatherings with hundreds of people in attendance. Dr. Ione Vargus has seen some of them all. She is the founder and administrator of the Family Reunion Institute at Temple University in Philadelphia. Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. Vargus on the current edition of Insight.

http://www.temple.edu/fri/familyreunion/

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

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Say the words "Atlantic Beach, SC" and most people familiar with the place most likely will think of the major challenges that the town and some of its leaders have faced in recent years.  But from the 1940s through the 1970s, Atlantic Beach was a recreation and relaxation mecca for African Americans in the Southeast United States. It was the height of the Jim Crow era, and African Americans were barred from white beaches and other public recreational facilities. That meant that Atlantic Beach or "The Black Beach" as it was often called, was the only beach African Americans could visit and enjoy. Millions of African Americans visited the beach each year.

The current edition of Insight is documentary feature that includes interviews with people who visited the beach during its heyday, those who have lived on Atlantic all their lives, and town leaders who discuss the past, present and future of the town.

http://townofatlanticbeachsc.com/Home_Page.html

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

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When I was 14 years old, I watched my father pass away from stomach cancer at the age of 39. That began a series of losses of male relatives and friends at relatively young ages – 20s through 50s – that have left me almost obsessed with the idea of men’s health and men’s mortality, especially African American men. That’s because of the tragic loss of brothers who were making and poised to make significant contributions to their families and communities - voids that in some cases could have been prevented. That led me to issue a strong message to all men, but especially African American men, in observance of Men’s Health Month.

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In recent decades, men have shown poorer health outcomes across all racial and ethnic groups as well as socioeconomic status, according to the Men’s Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association.  But this is particularly true for African American men. Educating men and boys, their families, and health care providers about the importance of early detection of male health issues - including cardiovascular, mental, prostate heath, and cancer (lung, prostate, skin, colorectal, testicular, and more), HIV/AIDS, osteoporosis - can result in reducing rates of mortality for male-specific diseases, as well as improve the health of America’s men and its overall economic well-being. The premature death and disability of men and boys is a serious and expanding public health issue

June is Men’s Health Month, and on the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. William Hughes, a semi-retired urologist living in the Conway area of South Carolina, about the status of men’s health in general, and African American men's health, in particular.

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

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