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Joyce Johnson
joycej@belovedcommunitycenter.org
A mother and a grandmother, Joyce Hobson Johnson is the Director of the Jubilee Institute of the Beloved Community Center.
Joyce’s activism began as a high school student in Richmond, VA during the 1960s struggle for civil rights and open accommodations. Joyce deepened her involvement in college while supporting non-academic employees on campus and the movement for relevant education at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
A former university professor and transportation and logistics research director at North Carolina A&T State University. Joyce and others established the pace-setting Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project in 2001. Modeled after the South African process, this initiative is designed to encourage truth, understanding, and healing throughout Greensboro related to the tragic murder of five labor and racial justice organizers by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members on November 3, 1979.
The Johnsons were recognized for their work in 2005 through the prestigious Ford Foundation “Leadership for a Changing World Award” and the Faith and Politics Institute of Washington, DC “St. Joseph Day Award.” The Johnsons have two daughters, Akua and Ayo Samori and three granddaughters.