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Ujima
Lifting as We Climb to Develop the Next Generation of African American Leaders
LYNN PERRY WOOTEN, SHANNON POLK, and WHITNEY WILLIAMS
Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The term beloved community was coined by the American philosopher Josiah Wright to conceptualize the goal of an inclusive community where we bring our best selves to work collaboratively to improve humanity. In the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. popularized the term when he spoke about the civil rights movement and the need for all people to share in society’s wealth. Fifty years later, we believe there is still a need to ...
