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Aug. 13, 2008
In the News: Community center receives an N.C. Defender of Justice award
by Nancy McLaughlin
A Greensboro nonprofit dedicated “to realizing the dignity and worth of all people” has been named a 2008 Defender of Justice, an award given annually by the nonprofit North Carolina Justice Center.
The Beloved Community Center was chosen as one of this year’s six recipients for the group’s “dedication” to making North Carolina a “fairer and more just state,” according to an announcement Tuesday from the organization, which highlights...
Jul. 28, 2008
Beloved Community Center Statement Regarding "Gangs"
by Collective Authorship
On June 25, 2008, at a media briefing held at Faith Community Church, Jorge Cornell, Inca (leader) of the North Carolina Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation, called for all gangs to lay down violence and crime and to work together for peace and justice in the community. Jorge, along with others, has been working since the June media conference to bring together a representative group of “gang” leaders to work out a program and process for peace. On...
Jul. 9, 2008
Youth Perspectives: Spreading Beloved Community through Anytown
by James Lamar Gibson
I enthusiastically returned to ANYTOWN this year as a counselor. Last year around this time, I was rethinking my decision to go. The reality of leaving my cell phone for a week was sinking in and while I knew that I would likely be going, I was thinking about how I was going to survive without my best friends and my email. Looking back, those seven days impacted my life in ways that I could never have imagined. In fact, my life continues to be changed daily as I am able to embrace people who...
Jun. 11, 2008
African-American, Latino Perceptions
by Dr. Hollyce (Sherry) Giles
"How do we defy the logic that we [African-Americans and Latinos] are each other’s enemies? Until globalization itself goes, this is how it’s going to be. We can annihilate and cannibalize each other. Yet, there is no danger that doesn’t have a flip side—we can learn to understand each other’s language."
- Rev. Nelson Johnson, at the April 29th community meeting on the project’s findings
These sobering, yet hopeful reflections by...
May. 15, 2008
Labels: A prose poem
by Jean Rodenbough
First I was, by birthright, a conservative like the rest of my family,
active in politics of the Right during college and fearful of Communists,
then I moved leftward after marriage until I claimed with pride the label
of liberal. I loved the word and did all the things that would put me
into the liberal camp like make friends with the black community during those
dangerous civil rights times when to question prejudices was unacceptable
by the social crowd I ran...