This Black History Month we honor the long tradition of African American cooperation, as written about in the book, “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice,” by author Dr. Jessica Gordon Nembhard. From mutual aid societies to independent fugitive communities and from farmer cooperatives to consumer co-ops, Professor Gordon Nembhard details how people work together in the face of racism and active sabotage to improve each other’s lives in tangible ways.
Check out this article about it at A Short History of Black Cooperatives in America | Co+op (grocery.coop)