Abundance will host a Co-op Education Series Event on Collective courage : a history of African American cooperative economic thought and practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard including a Video and Panel Discussion with Lomax Campbell.

Jessica Gordon Nembhard's groundbreaking book details the critical role cooperative economics has played in African-American strategies for economic development and independence. Major figures in black history, W.E.B. Dubois, Ella Baker, Marcus Garvey, Fannie Lou Hamer, Halana Wilson and A. Phillip Randolph were all involved in cultivating cooperatives. Gordon Nembhard details the courageous path from mutual aid societies and organized labor to form black cooperatives in the face of white supremacist terrorism.

[source: Abundance Food Co-op events page, 2020-Feb-24]