Beloved Community Center

Reverend Nelson Johnson and Joyce Johnson, Executive Directors

Democracy

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Beloved Community Center (BCC) strives to forge and continually expand a quality of leadership and beloved community to guide Greensboro, North Carolina, and beyond into a new era of equitable economic sufficiency, peace, social, gender and racial justice that can serve as a model and inspiration for ourselves, our region, our nation and our world.

Year Founded: 1991

The NC Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission Process (NC-TJRC) is a grassroots, people-powered Process, Commission and Movement. It is designed to walk the varied segments of NC’s diverse population towards each other so that they may eventually walk together building broad “community truths.” BCC has identified several areas of focus, in a Declaration of Intent, around which they will build this truth, justice and reconciliation movement. The areas of focus are:

Financial security and wealth creation
Inclusive voter access and genuine democracy
Adequate housing
Police accountability and judicial equity
Community safety
Quality healthcare (including mental health)
Climate justice and ecological sustainability
Quality, relevant education

The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, North Carolina (BCC) is a community-based, grassroots empowerment-oriented organization rooted in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy of proactive struggles for racial and economic justice, democracy, and beloved community.

With over fifty years of connected struggle in and around Greensboro, our connection to the social justice movement started long before the Beloved Community Center’s official beginning thirty years ago. Through community building, community organizing, advocacy, and other forms of coalition building, we have continued to pursue our mission and dream of building of an inclusive community that uplifts the dignity, worth and enormous, often unrealized, potential of all.