BCC Participates in North Carolina Moral Monday Activities

On June 16, 2014, the staff of the Beloved Community Center participated in the North Carolina Moral Monday Activities.

During the during the pre-rally held at Davie Street Presbyterian Church in downtown Raleigh, NC, participants were engaged in a program that featured community members and activist from across the state of North Carolina. 

The rally included speakers representing Working America, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the North Carolina Moral Freedom Summer Movement, and more. 

View what BCC staff member and Jubilee Institute Director Joyce Johnson had to say about jobs and equality during the pre-rally and view pictures of the rally below. 

BCC to host Moral Freedom Summer Fellowship Program Training

Beginning Sunday June 8th and concluding on Saturday June 14th, the Beloved Community Center will be the host of the Moral Freedom Summer Fellowship Program for the training of its 50 organizing fellows. 

The fellowship program will honor the 50th Anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer and continue the Forward Together Moral Movement by leading a statewide North Carolina Moral Freedom Summer.  The NC-MFS project encompasses diverse organizing efforts statewide aimed at building a long-term transformative fusion movement in North Carolina. 

The centerpiece initiative this summer is a deep organizing campaign that places 50 highly-trained Moral Freedom Summer organizers in counties across the state to coordinate long-term, issue-based voter empowerment campaigns and to support endogenously led work. This Moral Freedom Summer Organizing Fellowship Program will deepen and strengthen the Forward Together Moral Movement across North Carolina. 

The training will take place on the campus of Bennett College for Women. 

Source: http://moralfreedomsummer-naacpnc.nationbuilder.com/

Vincent Harding dies at the age of 82.

The Beloved Community Center stands in solidarity with the family of Civil Rights Historian Vincent Harding during his recent passing. Harding was an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and a friend of the Beloved Community Center. He was 82 when he passed.