They arrive at the Hospitality House by 4:00 AM, preparing a rich homecooked meal for 175-200 people four

days a week. BCCs Hospitality House is a warm, caring place a shelter in the storm for many for over 18 years. Many people have no place to shower or no address to receive their mail. The BCC provides these services. Those able to find work start their day freshly showered with a solid breakfast. Thanks for your help for our homeless neighbors!

Homeless Hospitality House Fed BCCs Garden Had Its Over 35,000 & Provided Showers Best Yield in 2010. Home for Hundreds of Others in 2010. -less Men Also WeatherTerry Speed (r) and Patsy Turner (l) are the ized BCC House Winpicture of love, caring, and kindness. They dows thru City Stimulus guide the house with firm, loving hands. Training Program. Brothers

Immigration a Challenge and a Gift for Greensboro and the Nation

The BCC continued its work with the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) and the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation. BCC helped set up the Detroit-North Carolina Axis that planned a major economic justice and immigration march at the US Social Forum in Detroit. Immigration is a question of both human dignity and just public policy. It is a challenge, but as we engage this issue, it will be a great gift, for we will discover our deeper, mutual humanity. Let us continue!

and sisters who are homeless have worked in the garden for three years. Some of the food produced is used in the Hospitality House, some is given to the neighbors, and some is sold. Guided by Tim Gwyn and assistance from VISTA Intern, Elizabeth Pullan, the garden has become a place of work, as well as a source of pride. In addition, pictured above are three men who replaced 20 windows in a City stimulus grant funded work program. Thank you for your help!

37 Greensboro Residents at U.S. Department of Justice

Early October 1, 2010, at 1:00 AM, a bus carrying 37 passengers left Greensboro for Washington, DC to appeal to the U.S. Department of Justice to help end a long pattern of corruption and double standards within the Greensboro Police Department. It was an amazing experience. Ultimately, however, the residents of Greensboro must learn to love and respect each other in order to bring about the enduring change we need.
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Greenville, SC Tells the Greensboro, NC Story

It was a pleasant surprise when we received a call from Daniel Murray of the South Carolina Governors School of the Arts in Greenville. He informed us that his high school students were going to put on Emily Manns play, Greensboro: A Requiem, a docudrama of the 1979 Klan and Nazi killings for which Klan, Nazis and members of the Greensboro Police were found jointly liable for wrongful death. Pictured below is the cast along with Signe Waller-Foxworth, Nelson and Joyce Johnson. This group of young teenagers did a masterful job. We were so proud of them and so happy for them. Bless you, Greenville, SC! What a gift! What a talented and committed group of young people. There is hope for the future. The fu tur e belongs to the young.

The 1979 Greensboro Massacre

Greensboro Justice Summer (GJS)

Inspired by the Sit-In Movement of the 1960s, area college students formed the The Spirit of the Sit-In Movement Initiative, which became the centerpiece of GJS. This daring group of young people took over the seats of the City Council and started to legislate until they were arrested. GJS carried out a powerful program of community organizing for ten weeks in the summer. For more info, contact: www.belovedcommunitycenter.org.

Beyond Greensboro and North Carolina

The BCC is based in Greensboro, NC, located at the corner of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Arlington St., on the edges of Downtown Greensboro. We carry out work primarily in this city and across North Carolina. However, we are frequently invited to share with partnering groups outside of North Carolina. Below are some places visited in 2010: US Social Forum, Detroit, MI Peer to Peer Training in Civic Engagement, Washington, DC Open Society Institute, Baltimore, MD Panel Presentation, Emily Mann's Docudrama, Greensboro: A Requiem, Greenville, SC MIT Co-Lab Fellows Roundtables, Boston, MA Sustainable Green Economic Development Site Visit, Cleveland, OH MIT Co-Lab Workshop on Media and Community Building - Boston, MA Civic Engagement Workshop, Washington, DC University of South Florida Immigration Conference, Atlanta, GA Purpose Prize Awards Conference, Philadelphia, PA Veterans of Hope Intergenerational Conference, Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo, MI U.S. Justice Department, Washington, DC One Nation Rally (10-2-10), Washington, DC

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Board Members
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BCC View On Moving Into Second Decade Of The 21st Century

We are living in an exciting, challenging, and epic changing period! Times are hard as we are being pushed by history to make changes in all facets of society. The changes we make can be for better or for worse. Although there is growing division, confusion and even bitterness among the people of our city and nation, we at the BCC believe a new and better future is possible. The most difficult stumbling block to a positive future for all of us is the deeply ingrained human failure to get along with each other. Humanity is locked into privileged/rivalistic relationships that limit our human potential. If not checked, the accumulated historical weight of environmental neglect, combined with an ongoing web of continued individual, group, and national conflicts could propel humanity backward for centuries.

Seeking A More Just Society In Greensboro

Greensboro, the birthplace of the modern sit-in movement, is locked in a deeply entrenched, stubborn struggle to transition into a more just society. Although the economic, political, social, and religious spheres are all involved, the Greensboro Police Department (GPD) currently is ground zero of this struggle. In a sense this struggle is a test as to whether this city, or any city in our nation, can pull itself from the tight grip of the culture of conflict and domination and rapidly grow towards being a more compassionate, just, safe and caring community. Former Latino Police Officer A.J. Blake (pictured to the left) is one of the many faces of the struggle. Mr. Blake, a nine-year veteran of the GPD and a single parent of a seven year old daughter, protested against how young Latino men and women were being treated by GPD. He also filed official complaints against anti-Latino slurs. As a result of his courageous actions, he has endured slander, false charges, harassment, and firings. Officer Blake was fired and was without income for seven months. During this time he lost his home, and he and his daughter endured enormous hardships. His firing, which was trumped up, was overturned by an interim city manager, and he returned to work. When he came back to work, he was met with a barrage of hostilities, threats, and even public declarations by some white officers that they would not come to his aid if he were in distress. In this atmosphere of hostility, Officer Blake was assigned to Captain Charles Cherry, an African American command-level officer with 23 years of experience. Captain Cherry saw the injustice surrounding Officer Blake and sought to come to his aid. GPD leadership went back and overthrew the interim city managers decision and fired Officer Blake a second time. Captain Cherry and several others have been fired for standing against a sub-culture of corruption and double standards. Currently, 39 African American and Latino officers have filed civil suits against the GPD. In addition, some 16 racial profiling (Title VI) cases have been filed with the U.S. Department of Justice in the last two months. Moreover, hundreds of other citizen complaints have been filed with the Greensboro Human Relations Department. Since August of 2010, community meetings of 140, 160 and over 600 people have been held. A delegation of 37 people visited with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington on October 1st to request an official investigation. The City has lashed back with demonizations, denials, and terminations. A sign of a great city, however, is acknowledging errors and inviting all to work together towards a more just society. For Over 600 gathered at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, more information on this story, please visit our BCC website at praying for professionalism and accountability in the Greensboro Police Department. (www.belovedcommunitycenter.org).

Mrs. Patricia Priest

Chairperson

Mr. Dale Tonkins

Vice-Chairperson

Mr. John Parker

Secretary

Atty. Lisa Tonkins

Asst. Secretary

Mrs. Deborah Underwood

Treasurer

Nelson and Joyce Johnson, two of the eight BCC intergenerational staff leadership team members.

Rev. Z. N. Holler
Chairperson Emeritus

Ms. Juanita Brown Atty. Dayna Cunningham Dr. Kathleen Casey Rev. Lou East Ms. Daisy Holland Mrs. Deborah Kelly Dr. Kay Lovelace Rev. J. Herbert Nelson Dr. Marsha Paludan Rev. Alma Purvis Mr. Steve Sumerford Mr. Edward Whitfield
Staff Members
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Despite many new scientific, technological, and sociological advances, we cannot expect to make enduring progress without locally based, grassroots, democratic movements of sincere truth seeking, restorative justice, and reconciliation that move towards forgiveness and healing. The substance and spirit of such a movement must be built into the thousands of diverse, ongoing, tenacious struggles for creative change on the social, economic, gender, environmental, religious, and racial fronts. It may well be that four or five cities around the nation will have to model this process. Greensboro might possibly be among those cities. Not since the 1850s has the need for real reconciliation and unity been so urgent and the opportunity so great. Ultimately, hundreds of thousands must join together in this history making effort. We believe our work here in Greensboro is an important seed that can provide a path and help to grow this movement in the United States. We hope this 2010 End-of-Year Report will inspire you to give as you are able to support BCCs efforts. In addition to giving, please join with us and with others in this life affirming, difficult, yet rewarding work. Let us add to our works of charity the critically important work of nonviolent social transformation. We invite your responses by phone at (336) 230-0001 or via the internet at www.belovedcommunitycenter.org.

Growing Our Living History

What makes history (our story) powerful, alive and relevant? We at BCC believe that this happens when our many stories are woven together to produce a larger picture that captures the essence of the journey of a community, a city, a people or a nation. Lewis A. Brandon, III - a kind, gentle, no nonsense, former school teacher, known to many as Uncle Brandon - has been capturing history through pictures and stories in Greensboro and around the nation for over 50 years. All history is necessarily told from a perspective. Lewis Brandon takes care to tell stories from the grassroots perspective. The opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum strengthened Greensboro as one of the footprints of the black freedom movement. The civil rights museum offers a somewhat selective, sanitized version of history. In reality, the movement did not stop with the 1960s and 1970s. The struggle has remained alive and strong even until this day. Increasingly groups from colleges, churches, and high schools seek the ongoing living history that flows into the current struggles. Brandon teaches that all of the stories are connected - the sit-ins, the blind workers strike, the cafeteria workers strike, the A&T-Dudley Revolt, the 1979 Klan/Nazi killings, the historic Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project, and the current struggle against police corruption and for accountability. The BCC collaborates with many of the area universities and colleges and the Greensboro Historical Museum to tell a rich and full story of the struggle for a just society and a peaceful world. Among the groups hosted by the BCC in the last several months are Princeton, Rutgers, Washington & Lee, Project Understanding of Washington, DC, a youth delegation on a freedom ride organized by the NC Episcopal Diocese, as well as many informal visits by individuals.

Civic Engagement - Voting and Beyond

For millions, the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency of the United States in 2008 was a moment of exhilaration and high expectation. Regardless of ones political persuasion, 2010 was a sobering period, as almost The BCC helped organize a delegation of everyone was compelled to NC A&T students to march to the polls come to a deeper understandfor early voting for the 2010 elections. ing of electoral politics, voting, civic engagement, and how power really works. The BCC, under the leadership of Lewis Brandon and Demetria Ledbetter, joined with others to focus on voter registration, voter education about key issues, and getting-out-the-vote in under represented populations, especially certain sectors of the Latino and African American community. We were successful in increasing the percentage of voter turn out during a non-presidential election, especially among youth. We also received training for the entire staff and assisted in training others in the successful use of the Voter Access Network (VAN). Perhaps the most significant contribution of the BCC was in broad civic engagement and education. BCC helped people to move beyond emotional campaign rhetoric to understanding the connections of the vote to real local issues that affected their lives. As important as voting is, it is but one form of civic engagement. We must build local capacity to engage local issues in many ways. For national power to have meaning, it must be rooted in local power.

Rev. Nelson N. Johnson

Executive Director

Stimulus Funds, Jobs, and Rebuilding Neighborhoods

Quintella Mitchell, a 25 year old unemployed high school dropout and mother of two charming little girls, received a flyer about a job training program that was being passed out in her neighborhood by BCC staff members. Quintella signed up for BCCs Pathways to Green Careers Training, a program funded with stimulus money through the Guilford County Workforce Development Program. Quintella said, I enjoyed the training, and it got me ready for work. Quintella completed the program along with 17 other young people, all of whom were then placed in internships with the possibility of later full time employment. She landed a full-time job and is enjoying raising her family. The central theme of BCCs creative training revolved around helping young people believe in their enormous, unrealized potential. The BCC, as part of a collaborative of 19 organizations, small businesses, community/neighborhood groups, schools, and individuals, worked closely with city staff to secure a second Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant (EECBG). Just as Quintella was helped to live into her potential, we believe whole neighborhoods have to be helped to live into their potential. We call this the community building approach. A significant portion of the recent EECBG funds won by Greensboro in a national competitive bid provide an Young people who successfully comunparalleled opportunity in this period to build equity, wealth and pleted BCCs Pathways to Green Careers Training Program. sustainability in low-income communities, while making the greatest impact on energy efficiency per dollar spent. Realizing this potential requires a very intentional community-neighborhood building approach.

Mrs. Joyce H. Johnson

Jubilee Institute Director

Ms. Demetria Ledbetter

Administrative Officer

Mr. Lewis A. Brandon, III

Grassroots Hall of Fame Coordinator

Mr. Wesley Morris

Youth Coordinator

Ms. Terry Speed

Homeless Hospitality Coordinator

Rev. Joseph Frierson, Jr.

Truth and Community Reconciliation Process Coordinator

Technology and Special Projects Coordinator

Mr. Timothy L. Gwyn

Homeless Hospitality Assistant

Ms. Patsy Turner

Administrative Assistant

Ms. Elena Conley Mr. Wray Norwood

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