How Can Cooperative Economics Help Us Build Collective Power?

Update: 2021-11-03

Description

In this episode we speak to DJC staff attorney Whitley Granberry and Jerry Hebron who runs Oakland Avenue Urban Farm in Detroit’s North End. Our guests deliver a powerful summary of what cooperative economics are, and how they serve to shore up equity for future generations. We’ll also talk to Jerry about ancestral recipes and how her farm's delicious Afro-Jam came about.

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Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard

Non-profit urban farm in Detroit still helping amid COVID-19 outbreak

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