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Sep. 8, 2008
New Voice Youth Group hosts an Intergenerational Conversation
by the Beloved Community Center
Arletha Jowers and Erica Mayo, both coordinators of New Voice Youth Group, a program for youth ages 14-20 years of age, hosted and facilitated the First Intergenerational Conversation held at the Beloved Community Center on September 2, 2008. The conversation was the beginning of an effort to rebuild unity and close some of the actual and perceived generational gaps between...
Jul. 17, 2008
I Love Art
by Fahiym Hannah
I love art.
I stepped over classroom chairs and watched the special ed create magic from numbers.
I stepped over concrete and found the desperateness of the city graffiti-ed on the wall.
I stepped over tiles and found that rich people have problems posted in galleries.
I stepped over carpet and watched a 9-year-old tell a story with stick figures and printer paper.
I stepped over railroad tracks and found a hobo screaming to the stars with a...
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...
Jul. 1, 2008
Sharing the table: Latin Kings work for peace and unity
by Kyle Lambelet
On Monday, June 30th the Beloved Community Center, Pulpit Forum, and area church and community leaders joined with Jorge Cornell and members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) to call for peace in the streets and an end to racist policies and practices.
A connection made
Jorge Cornell, known as King J, is head Inca and leader of the ALKQN in North Carolina. Cornell and other members of the ALKQN participated in the BCC's weekly community...
Apr. 3, 2008
Town Hall Meeting engages the purpose of education
by Arletha Jowers
On Sunday, March 30th the Community Dialogue on Education, a project of the Beloved Community Center, hosted a Town Hall Meeting on education. This meeting was held in response to the transition that will occur following the exit of the current School Superintendent Terry Grier. The CDE saw this moment as an opportunity to engage the Guilford County community in a discussion of our goals for education in this county.
The CDE agreed together that any search for a new superintendent...