By Karim Shamsi-Basha
Felecia Lucky, president of the Black Belt Community Foundation (BBCF), has had big dreams for the area of south central Alabama known as the Black Belt. Some of those dreams had to wait.
But funding has arrived to accomplish a few of those dreams.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation recently awarded the BBCF a $3 million grant as its official Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation partner. As part of this grant, the BBCF will support the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation headed by Ainka Jackson.“I am very excited to receive this grant from the Kellogg Foundation,” Lucky said. “I’ve been doing this work for 14 years across what most people call Alabama’s distressed counties, but I call them counties of opportunity. Counties that have not been invested in on a national level. We work hard to bring in resources and to bridge the gap in our communities.”
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