The Black Belt Community Foundation Announces its October 22, 2015 Legacy Awards Dinner and Fundraiser Honoring Three of its Heroes, Board Member Justice John England Jr. and Retiring Board Members and Founders George McMillan Jr. and Dr. Carol Zippert SELMA, AL and BIRMINGHAM, AL – The Black Belt Community Foundation proudly announces The Legacy Awards Dinner to be held on Thursday, October 22 at The Harbert Center in downtown Birmingham, Alabama at 6pm.  The purpose of this special event will be twofold:  to honor three of its ‘BBCF Heroes” board members (two retiring and one current) Justice John England Jr. formerly of the Alabama Supreme Court and currently presiding 6th circuit judge, Former Alabama Lieutenant Governor George McMillan Jr., and Dr. Carol Zippert, educator, philanthropist, poet, and founder of the Greene County Democrat newspaper.  Both Dr. Zippert and Mr. McMillan who have retired from the board helped found The Black Belt Community Foundation ten years ago in an effort to uplift the large, multi-county area of the state known as the Alabama Black Belt, a region historically challenged across a wide variety of issues including poverty, high unemployment, educational setbacks, and economic development, to name but a few.