What is B.O.O.T Movement?
“Building Our Own Table”
Our mission at B.O.O.T. Movement is to facilitate and develop innovation in social equity. Social equity is rooted in all aspects of everyday life, and innovation drives humanity forward to create a better quality of life across all sectors. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell was accredited with inventing the first working telephone. From then until now, innovators from Jesse Russell to Steve Jobs have continued to revolutionize how people connect and communicate.
In the same manner that innovation has advanced technology and communication, the same is true for social equity. Harriet Tubman engineered routes and systems for enslaved Black Americans to reach freedom. Since then a prominent list of “innovators” such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Tamika Mallory, Public Enemy, Maya Angelou (and many more) have developed modern methods in their respective generations to achieve the same goal.
Our goals are akin to theirs. We are 60 years since the zenith of the Civil Rights Movement, and we accept the challenge to chart a course for the next 60 years where we can be closer to the ideal utopian society rooted in freedom, justice, and equality; or what religious theological doctrine calls “heaven on earth.”
- Joshua Muhammad, Founder