The City of Jackson Beloved Community Pilot Project

The City of Jackson Beloved Community Pilot Project is based on respect for human dignity and dignity economy to identify and develop the components of a thriving, sustainable, and continuously improving community model with the goal of impacting the greater Jackson community in areas such as affordable housing, safe neighborhoods, transformative justice, physical and mental health care, clean water and air, exceeding living wage jobs, quality education, innovation/technology, and cultural infusion

Dr. King affirmed that “a genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical [and inter-religious]. Every nation must develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole and call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concerns beyond one’s race, class, and national borders to an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind…” Imam Mohammed’s message was the same.

Inspired by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Imam W. Deen Mohammed, & Mayor Chokwe Lumumba Sr.,and the Mississippi Freedom Movement—emphasis on Medgar Evers & Fannie Lou Hamer

Vision

To transform the soul of Mississippi by building a Beloved Community beginning in ward 2.

Jackson Residents for a Beloved Community seek to build a broad-based and dynamic inter-faith, and broad-based inter-organization, and inter-generational social justice partnership model to transform the soul of America, starting in Mississippi and within the City of Jackson, to create a “Beloved Community”.

Mission

To build a community for the community by the community.

Jackson Residents for a Beloved Community envision a “Beloved Community” as a genuine revolution of values that all people share in the resources and wealth of the earth. It is through this global lens in which poverty, hunger, homelessness, racism, hatred, conflict, and violence are not tolerated. Unconditional loyalty to brotherhood and sisterhood with neighborly concerns reaching beyond religion, race, class, gender, age, and geographic borders are the foundational premises. Peace, human dignity, trust, and love for all of humanity are core tenets of a beloved community.

want to Get Involved

Contact Beloved Community Project Manager Najla Sharrief to learn more about the program and how you can get involved. Email: najla.sharrief@muslimmuseum.org