Beloved Community Build

We were honored to cover Habitat for Humanity’s Beloved Community Build in Walnut Creek this year! They hold this event every April to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King and the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968. Malkia Device-Cyril – activist, writer, and public speaker – provided a spiritual anchor to the work of about 70 volunteers, giving an electrifying speech about how expanding access to affordable home ownership is an act toward justice that brings us closer to realizing Dr. King’s vision of The Beloved Community.

“There is another element that must be present in our struggle that then makes our resistance and nonviolence truly meaningful. That element is reconciliation. Our ultimate end must be the creation of the beloved community.”

Martin Luther King Jr.
April 15, 1960, in Raleigh, North Carolina

“The racial wealth gap didn’t start yesterday; it started hundreds of years ago and it’s progressed to today. It’s important that we understand that every home you build…you are affecting something that is hundreds of years in the making. We’re not building a house, we’re building a future.”

Malkia Device-Cyril
April 1, 2023, in Walnut Creek, CA